1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... in 1956 which started when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus in 1955 that led to a US Supreme Court case Browder v. Gayle in 1956 that made the segregation of buses unconstitutional uner the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. In the following year, Rustin and Dr. King had begun preparations to create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. There were some concerns from African ... his claim that there was a homosexual relationship between the two men8. Rustin's big contribution to the March was the fact that he had organized the bus captains, ...
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