1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... contributions to both the political portion of the labor movement as well as the economic portion of the labor movement. In 1972, Rustin, with the support of the AFL-CIO labor union, founded and became the director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, in which he had spearheaded the alliance between the AFL-CIO's civil rights record and for economic justice, which gave him a major arena to work with. On the political side ... , Rustin became a member of the Social Democrats, USA in which he was a co-chairman in which he had criticized President Nixon's ending of the War on Poverty in whi...
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