1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... introducing it to the American civil rights movement, while at the same 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 ... had made to the Civil Rights Movement that historians have not heard of or given credit to him during the Civil Rights movement was the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom that was organized by Rustin and A. Philip Randolph on May 17, 1957 that was supported by the president of the...
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