The 8 ft 8 in (2.64 m) sculpture depicts Indian civil rights leader Mahatma Gandhi dressed in traditional attire and walking with a long staff.

[1] The Mahatma Gandhi Memorial in Washington, D.C. includes a similar statue by Gautama Pal, also mounted on a red granite plinth.

The sculpture stands on a tapered red granite base on which bronze plaques are mounted on four sides to display texts.

Kumar Dhaliwal, retired dean of the Marquette University School of Dentistry, and his wife Darshan led the campaign to bring the sculpture to Milwaukee and donated $25,000.

"[1] The sculpture was unveiled on October 5, 2002, and the dedication event included a peace march, speeches by Wisconsin elected officials and Indian Ambassador Lalit Mansingh, and singing of bhajans.