1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... a member of the SCLC's board of directors that forced Rustin to resign from the SCLC in 1960 after Powell had threatened to bring up Rustin'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, produced an ... for economic justice, which gave...
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