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Events on Tuesday 22 May 1894 1
1894Gandhi founds Natal Indian CongressA young lawyer organizes Indians in South AfricaMohandas Gandhi founded the Natal Indian Congress on 22 May 1894 to fight discrimination against Indian immigrants in the British colony of Natal. It was Gandhi's first political organization and marked the beginning of his activism. The methods he developed there later shaped his campaigns in South Africa and India.