1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... 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 New York City School Boycott that resulted in Jewish teachers being forced out and also ... which he had criticized President Nixon's ending of the War on Poverty in which Rustin wanted the program to continue supporting the needy, most specifically the African-American community. During this time, Rustin had begun working for Freedom House as an election monitor as well as a human rig...
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