Now, he would be spending a month in India to learn more and pay homage to his hero. ADEverywhere they went, they were treated as honored guests, King later remembered. AD“They felt that non-violent resistance could only work in a situation where the resisters had a potential ally in the conscious of the opponent,” King later said. “They, like many other students, tended to confuse passive resistance with non-resistance.”Coretta joined King at many of these talks, and "the Indian people love to listen to the Negro spirituals,” King wrote later in Ebony magazine. “Therefore, Coretta ended up singing as much as I lectured.”While in Mumbai, King was also invited to stay at Gandhi’s private residence.

Source: Washington Post January 20, 2020 12:00 UTC