... 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, I will explain all the contributions that Bayard Rustin had made to the Civil Rights movement ... Morgan decision that the US Supreme Court had 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 ...

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