1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... which he saw this movement as the model for empowering the African-American community and having economic justice for all Americans in which he made significant contributions to both the political portion of the labor movement as well as the economic portion of the labor movement. In 1972, Rustin, with the support of the AFL-CIO labor union, founded and became the director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, in which he ... had spearheaded the alliance between the AFL-CIO's civil rights record and for economic justice, which gave ... ...
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