1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... to his firing from the Fellowship of Reconciliation and prior to his involvement in the War Resisters League as well as bringing attention to his sexuality, in which homosexuality was against the law during the 1950s until its revocation in 2003. During his time with the War Resisters League, Rustin had also advised Dr. King in the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 which started when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus in ... 1955 that led to a US Supreme Court case Browder v. Gayle in 1956 that made the segregation of buses unconstitutional uner the 14th Am...
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