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​YEAR OF GANDHI
Mahatma Gandhi and Our Single  Garment of Destiny: ​Our inescapable struggle for Peace and Justice

On the 150th anniversary of Gandhi, we celebrate the legacy of the Indian Anti-Colonial Struggle and the Civil Rights Movement and continue the struggle for World Peace.
William Stuart Nelson and Nonviolence in the Civil Rights Movement

Date: October 24th, 2019, 12.30 pm
Location: Mary Dod Brown Chapel, Lincoln University
Event: A Brother in the Spirit of Gandhi: William Stuart Nelson and Nonviolence in the Civil Rights Movement

A lecture on Gandhian freedom fighter and theologian, William Stuart Nelson by Dr. Dennis Dickerson, James M Lawson Professor of History, Vanderbilt University. Panel discussion to follow.

India and Afro America: A Network of Mutuality

India and Afro-America have had a long connection and shared struggles. W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, Howard Thurman, Mordecai Johnson, William Stuart Nelson, Bayard Rustin, James Lawson and Martin Luther King Jr. are just some of the names who took deep interest in India's anti-colonial struggle. We have documented some of the connections between the Indian Anti-Colonial Struggle and the struggle for Black Liberation.

List of partners of the Year of Gandhi

Council of Indian Organizations in Greater Philadelphia
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University
American Friends Service Committee
Mother Bethel AME Church, Philadelphia
Mayor’s Commission on Asian American Affairs, Philadelphia
Office of Councilwoman Jannie L. Blackwell
Sree Narayana Guru Dharma Paripalana Yogam (SNDP)
Bangladeshi Association of Delaware Valley
Railway Workers Union (Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division)
District 1199C Union of Hospital and Healthcare Employees
Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission
Gandhi Global Family