1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... the achievements 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 paper, ... 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 movement and the Democratic Party and those of the working class. With one of his proteges, Tom...
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- Grade Level: Graduate