1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... non-violent action to allow for interstate transportation in light of the Irene 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 days in North Carolina. Another contribution ... as members of an oppressed group. By identifying himself as a member of the gay community, Rustin devoted the rest of his life to promoting Civil Rights for gays in which he h...
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