1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... Bayard Rustin was content with his status as an "intellectual engineer behind the scenes." In their view, Rustin was a powerful man with such a powerful political philosophy that the leadership at the time had begun to constrict him. Other historians have argued that the main reason why Rustin was written out of the history books is because he stayed true to a social agenda that had benefited ... 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 critici...
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