1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... handed down one year earlier that allowed for desegregation of interstate travel, but the South did not recognize that decision, so the protesters were arrested and sentenced to time 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 ... , which he further states that it is time to move on from protest to politics. During the Poor People's Campaign in 1968, which begun after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr on April 4, Rus...
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