What is the theme in Bearing the Cross by David Garrow?

Another theme has to do with Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhiism is the study and enacting of the nonviolent civil disobedience that Gandhi practiced as a political and spiritual leader during the Indian Independence Movement. King was a student of Gandhi before and during his time as a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, using many of Gandhi's methods in order to keep his protests from becoming unnecessarily violent. Many people who participated in the Civil Rights Movement and the subsequent protests learned this unique type of nonviolent protest through teachers associated with the Highlander Folk School and the various organizations that sprang up in the early days of the Civil Rights Movement.