1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... . Writers and historians such as Lawrence Freedman have stated that Bayard Rustin was content with his status as an "intellectual engineer behind the scenes." In their view, Rustin was a powerful man with such a powerful political philosophy that the leadership at the time had begun to constrict him. Other historians have argued that the main reason why Rustin was written out of ... the African-American movement with leaders of the time such as Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. who had felt that being his political power was in peril to the point where Powell had threatened to bring up his 1953 a...
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