1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... time, bringing Martin Luther King, Jr. to the forefront as the focal point for nonviolence and peace. Despite 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 ... role since his arrest in Pasadena in 1953 on sodomy charges that led to his firing from the Fellowship of Reconciliation and prior to his involvement in the War Resisters League as well as bringing attention to his sexuality, in which homosexuality was against the...
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