1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... the Communist movement. Hoover had requested Attorney General Robert Kennedy to authorize electronic surveillance on him, in which Kennedy authorized and in which Hoover had given the wiretaps to Rustin's enemies in order for them to cause Rustin's reputation to take a significant hit4. As Devon Carbado and Donald Wiese argued that "perhaps no other figure contributed so much to the civil rights movement ... of the Fellowship of Reconciliation as well as a member of the American Friends Service Committee along with FOR member George Houser and 14 other members from CORE also took part in...
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- Grade Level: Graduate