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    85 years ago today news organizations around the world reported on the beginning of

    India’s Mahatma Gandhi’s Salt March.

    Front page news from The Marion (Ohio) Star:

    Some background on the story:


    “The Salt March, which took
    place from March to April 1930
    in India, was an act of civil
    disobedience led by ​Mohandas
    Gandhi​ (1869-1948) to protest
    British rule in India. During the
    march, thousands of Indians
    followed Gandhi from his
    religious retreat near Ahmedabad to the Arabian Sea coast, a distance of some 240 miles.
    The march resulted in the arrest of nearly 60,000 people, including Gandhi himself. India
    finally was granted its independence in 1947.”

    — “​Salt March​“

    The following silent film footage reminds us that Mohandas Gandhi, like Dr. Martin
    Luther King, Jr. years later, understood the power of news images during marches and
    protests. (In 1959 ​Dr. King would write​: “While the Montgomery boycott was going
    on, India’s Gandhi was the guiding light of our technique of nonviolent social
    change.”)

    In April, as the Salt March neared its end, the


    following NEA (Newspaper Enterprise
    Association) image was published in the
    Marion Times-Mirror: An excerpt from the
    photo caption:“…dauntless Mahatma Gandhi,
    in his latest demonstration of protest against
    British rule. You see him above (indicated by
    arrow) as, with head bowed, he trudged
    among his loyal followers on their ‘parade of
    freedom.’”
    ​ oynter.
    Schedden,D(2015). ​Today in Media History: in 1930, the Press Reported on Mahatma Gandhi's Salt March. P
    Retrieved from:
    https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2015/today-in-media-history-in-1930-the-press-reported-on-mahatma-gand
    his-salt-march/

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