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Threads of Peace: How Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Changed the World
Uma Krishnaswami
Ages: 12+
Published: 2021
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 978-1-4814-1678-8
Keywords: civil rights, India, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, civil disobedience, prison, nonviolence
The comparison of the lives and approaches of these champions of nonviolent struggle illuminates the influences they had on their countries and the world. Photographs. Glossary, sources.