1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... Rustin struggles with the political and spiritual consequences of his homosexuality, his biographer John D'Emilio states that Rustin had remained "unusually open" about it. The first contribution that Bayard Rustin had created as an activist is the Journey of Reconciliation in 1947 in which he, as a member of ... part in 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 prot...
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- Grade Level: Graduate