1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
King to remove Rustin from his staff. ... 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. ... 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. ... King had begun preparations to create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. ... Prior to the March on Washington, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond pain...
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