1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... within the African-American movement with leaders of the time such as Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. who had felt that being his political power was in peril to the point where Powell had threatened to bring up his 1953 arrest on sexual charges in order to force Dr. King to remove Rustin from his staff. Rustin was also the target of ... New York City Council as well as speaking at rallies for the cause in support of a gay rights bill in which became the model for gay right bills across the country. Rustin was still Director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute at the time and he had continued ...
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