1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... Court had handed down one year earlier that allowed for desegregation of interstate travel, but the South did not recognize that decision, so the protesters were arrested and sentenced to time on a chain gang all over the South, including Rustin for 30 days in North Carolina. Another contribution that Rustin had made to the Civil Rights Movement that historians have not heard of or given credit ... civil disobedience in which he argued that the plans were vague and had lacked any direction as well as it did not address the key issues of the day, specifically the income for African-Ameri...
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