'To India I come as a pilgrim'
by editors@theworld.org (Jenna Gadbois) from The World: Latest Stories on (#72YQ2)
Martin Luther King Jr. spent a month traveling through India in 1959 to pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi was one of King's biggest influences, and King was well known in India as an American disciple of Gandhi's teachings. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks to Meghan Weaver from the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University, who tells us more about King's historic "pilgrimage."