1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... 's Pasadena arrest in Congress and also because Powell was concerned that his power in the Black community would be diminished by Rustin. Prior to the March on Washington, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond painted Rustin as a "draft dodger, a Communist, and a homosexual" and having his 1953 arrest entered into the public record in order to tarnish Rustin's reputation and as proof of his claim ... election monitor as well as a human rights monitor in which had allowed him to be an opponent of Marxism as well as visiting other nations such as Zimbabwe, Haiti, Barbados, and Lebanon to o...
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