1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... 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 J. Edgar Hoover during the late 1950s and early 1960s due to the fact that he ... was formerly tied to the Communist movement. Hoover had requested Attorney General Robert Kennedy to authorize electronic surveillance on him, in which Kennedy authorized and in which Hoover ... Pasadena arrest in Congress and also because Powell was concerned that his power in the Black community would be diminished by Rusti...
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