1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... to protect the marchers as well scheduling the speakers who were to speak at the National Mall in which he assisted by future Congresswoman 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 ... the fact that despite the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that forced the desegregation of public facilities, the schools in New York City was still segregated racially9. After ...
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