1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... , Bayard Rustin is mostly remembered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which has been one of the most famous of the non-violent marches in United States history. He had used Gandhi's tactics of nonviolence by introducing it to the American civil rights movement, while at the same time, bringing Martin Luther King, Jr. to the forefront as the focal point for nonviolence and peace. ... Despite the achievements that Rustin had accomplished during his career as ... from protest to politics. During the Poor People's Campaign in 1968, which begun after the assassination of Mart...
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