Which action best illustrates mohandas gandhi's concept of civil disobedience? a) a british army outpost was bombed as a protest against the british presence in northern ireland. b) citizens in the united states went to jail for violating segregation laws. c) french citizens wrote letters to their government to oppose arms sales to iraq. d) supporters of ferdinand marcos attempted a coup d'état against the philippine government.

B)Citizens in the United States went to jail for violating segregation laws.
 
Gandhi advocated for a new non-confrontational technique of protest where the citizenry would desist from acts of violence. whenever violence broke out, Gandhi would control it by refusing to eat. By disobeying the segregation laws, the citizens basically refused to disobey the civil racial laws and were sent to jail without any bloodbath from the police. It denies those in power justifications for atrocities.