1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... this non-violent action to allow for interstate transportation in light of the Irene Morgan decision that the US Supreme Court had handed down one year earlier that allowed for desegregation of interstate travel, but the South did not recognize that decision, so the protesters were arrested and sentenced to time on a chain gang all over the South, including Rustin for 30 days in North Carolina. Another contribution ... bringing attention to his sexuality, in which homosexuality was against the law during the 1950s until its revocation in 2003. During his time with the War Resisters Leag...
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