Dozens of organizations and local leaders gathered on Wednesday in Englewood to celebrate and promote the legacy of two fierce advocates for nonviolence with the opening of a new community center.
Martin Luther King Jr. never got to meet one of his heroes and great influences, Mahatma Gandhi, who led the independence movement in India. But Gandhi’s influence was palpable throughout King’s speeches and activism in the U.S. civil rights movement. He once noted that Gandhi was a “guiding light” in his life.
