1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... Rustin is mostly remembered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which has been one of the most famous of the non-violent marches in United States history. He had used Gandhi's tactics of nonviolence by introducing it to the American civil rights movement, while at the same time, bringing Martin ... Despite the achievements that Rustin had accomplished during his career as an activist, he was beaten, silenced, imprisoned, and fired from different organizations mainly because of the fact that he was a gay man living at a time when homosexuality was not only frowned upon but w...
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