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Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi
Indian lawyer Mohandas Gandhi was
famous for his NONVIOLENT CAMPAIGNS
AGAINST INJUSTICE. He led the successful
fight for Indian independence from Britain by
staging hunger strikes and sit-down protests,
disobeying unfair laws, or refusing to work.
In 1948, he was killed at a prayer meeting
by a religious fanatic who opposed Gandhi’s

The nickname
“Mahatma” means
“Great Soul.”

When 43-year-old John Fitzgerald Kennedy was
John F. Kennedy work to bring Muslims and Hindus together.
elected president of the United States in 1960, he
was the youngest man ever to be elected to the job.
But three years later, on November 22, 1963, the
popular president was SHOT DEAD IN DALLAS,
TEXAS, while traveling in a motorcade. The
assassination deeply shocked people all over the
world. A former US Marine named Lee Harvey
Oswald was arrested for the killing, but he
himself was shot and killed before he could

stand trial.

Did you know?
There are at least Martin Luther King, Jr.
730 streets in the United
States named after Martin Luther King, Jr. was an African-
Martin Luther King, Jr. Tennessee. A small-time criminal named

American campaigner for equal rights.
He organized massive, NONVIOLENT
PROTESTS and made inspiring speeches.
He helped introduce laws that made
sure all Americans were treated equally
at school, and in their jobs. King was shot
dead in 1968, at a hotel in Memphis,

King had survived an
James Earl Ray confessed to the murder
and was sentenced to 99 years in jail.
assassination attempt in
1958, when Izola Curry
stabbed him in the chest
with a letter opener.
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