How Was Gandhi Successful In Fighting Injustice

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To what extent were Gandhi’s methods successful in fighting injustice in South Africa? This essay will discuss what Gandhi faced in south Africa and the methods he used in an attempt to make all humans be treated equally no matter what race or nationality. Throughout this essay, Gandhi’s way of fighting injustice will be shared along with his major successes he managed to make and the awareness his spread as well as some of the failures he had along the way. It will show how fighting as Gandhi did in a nonviolent way and be just as effective if not more effective than physically fighting. First this essay will discuss Gandhi’s train ride to Pretoria followed by the Natal Indian Congress, Phoenix Farm and Indian opinion. Then the empire theatre …show more content…

Only the Indians had to go down and register, nobody else. They were to carry around passes with them everywhere they went and the authorities could come into your ‘dwelling’ at any point without knocking and demand to see documents. This was called the Black Law On September 11th , 1906, A mass meeting was held at the Empire theatre in Johannesburg which Gandhi had asked all Indians nearby to attend. In this meeting they discussed how it was injust that only they had to follow these rules. Gandhi made the way they were going to handle this situation very clear. He said they would not use violence but they made an oath that none of them were to go down to the authorities and register. Gandhi said they would let the police take his dead body but not his obedience. This means that he will let the officers beat him and kill him but that he would never give in and do as they say. If they kept fighting in this way, Gandhi thought they might even earn the respect of the men rather than them being scared of him. Now Gandhi tried to stop the law coming into affect. He did this by using non-violent tactics that became known as Satyahraha, which means ’truth force’. Gandhi was somewhat successful in fighting the black law. Although the law was quickly passed and in 1909 Gandhi was given a two-month prison sentence, he did raise awareness of the matter and the respect of the Indians and even some

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