1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... that Rustin had accomplished during his career as an activist, he was beaten, silenced, imprisoned, and fired from different organizations mainly because of the fact that he was a gay man living at a time when homosexuality was not only frowned upon but was outlawed. In this ... v. Board of Education that forced the desegregation of public facilities, the schools in New York City was still segregated racially9. After the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the subsequent 1965 Voting Rights Act, Rustin had begun to hopefully create an alliance of sorts between ... the Civil Rights m...
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