... figure contributed so much to the civil rights movement yet been so penalized by it" 5. Although Rustin struggles with the political and spiritual consequences of his homosexuality, his biographer John D'Emilio states that Rustin had remained "unusually open" about it. The first contribution that Bayard Rustin had created as an activist is the Journey of Reconciliation in 1947 ... on a chain gang all over the South, including Rustin for 30 days in North Carolina. Another contribution that Rustin had made to the Civil Rights Movement that historians have not heard of or given credit to h...

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