1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... Rights Movement that historians have not heard of or given credit to him during the Civil Rights movement was the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom that was organized by Rustin and A. Philip Randolph on May 17, 1957 that was supported by the president of the NAACP, Roy Wilkins as a way to celebrate ... Eleanor Holmes Norton, despite the opposition leaders, specifically NAACP Chair Roy Wilkins not wanting to give Rustin credit for organizing the march because of his homosexuality. After the March on Washington, Rustin had turned his focus to the 1968 New York City School Boycott that resulted ...
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