The Black Wall Street Times: Connecting threads between oppression in U.S. and India
By Rasheed Ahmed
It is now well known that Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. drew deep inspiration from India’s leader Mahatma Gandhi.
“While the Montgomery boycott was going on,” King wrote, “India’s Gandhi was the guiding light of our technique of nonviolent social change.”
What is less known is that the influence went the other way too, with generations of activists in India drawing inspiration from the U.S. civil rights movement. A movement among India’s caste-oppressed individuals, The Dalit Panthers, patterned themselves directly after the Black Panthers, immersing themselves in Black liberation literature.
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