1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... his time with the War Resisters League, Rustin had also advised Dr. King in the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 which started when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus in 1955 that led to a US Supreme Court case Browder v. Gayle in 1956 that made the segregation of buses unconstitutional uner the 14th Amendment ... whereby the blacks would have to ally with white unions in order to have an economic agenda, which he further states that it is time to move on from protest to politics. During the Poor People's Campaign in 1968, which begun after the assassinati...
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