1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... Supreme Court case Browder v. Gayle in 1956 that made the segregation of buses unconstitutional uner the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. In the following year, Rustin and Dr. King had begun preparations to create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. There were some concerns from African-American leaders that Rustin's sexuality and his ties to the Communists would undermine the goals of the Civil Rights Movement in which Adam Clayton Powell had ... create an alliance of sorts between the Civil Rights movement and the Democratic Party and those of the working class. With o...
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