Gandhi Begins Salt March: India Defies Empire
Mahatma Gandhi set out on a 240-mile march to the Arabian Sea to protest Britain's salt monopoly, picking up thousands of followers along the way. When he scooped salt from the shore at Dandi twenty-four days later, the simple act of defiance galvanized millions and made nonviolent civil disobedience the defining strategy of the Indian independence movement.
March 12, 1930
96 years ago
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