Rajmohan Gandhi in Conversation with Indian Express: How MK Gandhi Shaped America’s Civil Rights Movement

In an interview with Adrija Roychowdhury for The Indian Express, Rajmohan Gandhi talks about why Mahatma Gandhi appealed to James Lawson, the subject of his latest biography, who trained a whole generation of American activists in the methods nonviolent resistance.

Though not as well known beyond the USA as other activists like Martin Luther King Jr or Rosa Parks, Lawson was a towering figure of the American Civil Rights movement, not only in the 1960s, but in the decades that followed. In James Lawson: Teacher of Satyagraha, Rajmohan Gandhi draws an affectionate portrait of an extraordinary man.