1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... , who had his entire arrest file put into the Congressional Record, despite the fact that his attempt to blackmail Rustin had backfired significantly. At the same time, he was also a target within the African-American movement with leaders of the time such as Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. who had felt that being his political power was in peril to the point where Powell had threatened to bring 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 f...
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