1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... work on human violations for Freedom House, he was able to see firsthand experiences in places such as Chile during the military dictatorship of Pinochet during the 1970s and was able to work with foreign labor and civil rights leaders during his tenure to address the political climates in each nation. During the last years of his life, Rustin once more had shifted his focus toward Gay Rights ... , in which he had seen as an extension of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s ... and 1970s in which he became active in the gay community to amend the New York ... ...
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