1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
A master strategist and an activist for Civil Rights, Bayard 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 Luther King, Jr. to ... as well scheduling the speakers who were to speak at the National Mall in which he assisted by future Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, despite the opposition leaders, specifically NAACP Chair Roy Wilk...
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