1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... threatened to bring up his 1953 arrest on sexual charges in order to force Dr. King to remove Rustin from his staff. Rustin was also the target of J. Edgar Hoover during the late 1950s and early 1960s due to the fact that he was formerly tied to the Communist movement. Hoover had requested Attorney General Robert Kennedy to authorize electronic surveillance on ... 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 biog...
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