1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... up his 1953 arrest on sexual charges in order to force Dr. King to remove Rustin from his staff. Rustin was also the target of J. Edgar Hoover during the late 1950s and early 1960s due to the fact that he was formerly tied to the Communist movement. Hoover had requested ... handed down one year earlier that allowed for desegregation of interstate travel, but the South did not recognize that decision, so the protesters were arrested and sentenced to time on a chain gang all over the South, including Rustin for 30 days in North Carolina. Another contribution that Rustin had made ... boar...
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