HJR16-1008 Summary

• Honors the life of Mahatma Gandhi, who dedicated his life to fighting injustices with nonviolence and peaceful resistance

• Recognizes Gandhi's development of satyagraha (passive resistance) after a 1893 train incident in South Africa where he was removed for being Indian

• Acknowledges Gandhi's twenty-year campaign against racial segregation in South Africa and his leadership of India's independence movement from Britain, including the famous 241-mile Salt March on March 12, 1930

• Notes Gandhi's efforts to overcome Hindu-Muslim disunity, fight the caste system, and his assassination on January 30, 1948

• Directs copies of the resolution be sent to the Prime Minister of India, Indian Ambassador to the United States, Consul General of India in Houston, and representatives of Indian cultural organizations in Colorado