Gandhi launches satyagraha in South Africa
1906 · Event
At a mass meeting in Johannesburg's Empire Theatre, Indians led by the young lawyer Gandhi vow to defy the Transvaal's registration law — the birth of satyagraha, his method of non-violent resistance.
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