What tactics for reform did Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Ghandi both use that they got from the American Women's Rights Movement?

In fighting to achieve equal rights for all, what Ghandi, Martin
Luther King, Jr., and the Women's Suffrage Movement all had in common was not just a passionate
commitment to the cause, but a willingness to battle for these rights without
violence.

Women marched, met, attended rallies, communicated with
politicians (even Presidents) so that their words would be heard. It took a great many years
before women were treated equally in the eyes of the government. When the 19th Amendment was
finally passed, the President went before the House and the Senate to encourage the ratification
of the Bill that would grant women the freedom to vote.

Mohandas
Karamchand Gandhi represented a strong presence in India's nonviolent fight for independence from
British rule. Though Ghandi (also known as Mahatma, meaning "great soul") refused to use violence
to achieve his goals, his "civil disobedience" often landed him in jail or resulted in physical
punishment. Ghandi would later be assassinated the same year that India won its
independence.

In the United States, Martin Luther King, Jr., decided
to use Ghandi's teachings and actions of non-violence.

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Just as India had gained its independence with passive
resistance, African Americans were also able to use similar tactics to secure their guaranteed
rights.

Although Dr. King refused to
resort to violence to achieve the movement's ends, blacks were still often met with violence
and/or death in their march for freedom. Dr. King was committed and patient. He was noted for his
refusal to adopt methods of violence to achieve equality for all people, and he never ceased in
his attempt to end laws that separated blacks and whites. (Unfortunately, King was also
assassinated, when he was only thirty-nine.)

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[King] was famous for using nonviolent resistance to
overcome injustice, and he never got tired of trying to end segregation
laws.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Mahatma
Ghandi and the Women's Suffrage movements were all led by individuals who did not believe in
bringing physical aggression and violence to bear in order to achieve their goals of equality
under the law, but relied on patient, non-violent methods to achieve equal rights for the people
they represented.