1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... Donald Wiese argued that "perhaps no other figure contributed so much to the civil rights movement yet been so penalized by it" 5. Although Rustin struggles with the political and spiritual consequences of his homosexuality, his biographer John D'Emilio states that Rustin had remained "unusually open" about it. The first contribution that Bayard Rustin had created as an activist is ... the Journey of Reconciliation in 1947 in which he, as a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation as ... that was organized by Rustin and A. Philip Randolph on May 17, 1957 that was supported by the pre...
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