1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... to his sexuality, in which homosexuality was against the law during the 1950s until its revocation in 2003. During his time with the War Resisters League, Rustin had also advised Dr. King in the Montgomery Bus Boycott 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 Lea...
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