1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... and Dr. King had begun preparations to create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. There were some concerns from African-American leaders that Rustin's sexuality and his ties to the Communists would undermine the goals of the Civil Rights Movement in which Adam Clayton Powell had a role in as 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 ... as an extension of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s in which he became active in the gay community to amend the New York City law that banne...
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