1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... give Rustin credit for organizing the march because of his homosexuality. After the March on Washington, Rustin had turned his focus to the 1968 New York City School Boycott that resulted in Jewish teachers being forced out and also adding to the fact that despite the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that forced the desegregation of public facilities, the ... of the working class. With one of his proteges, Tom Kahn, Rustin wrote an article called "From Protest to Politics" in which he argues that the desegregation of public places such as hotels, schools, and librarie...
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