A master strategist and an activist for Civil Rights, Bayard Rustin is mostly remembered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which has been one of the most famous of the non-violent marches in United States history. ... Hoover had requested Attorney General Robert Kennedy to authorize electronic surveillance on him, in which Kennedy authorized and in which Hoover had given the wiretaps to Rustin's enemies in order for them to cause Rustin's reputation to take a significant hit4. ... Although Rustin struggles with the political and spiritual consequences of his homosexua...

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