1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which has been one of the most famous of the non-violent marches in United States history. He had used Gandhi's tactics of nonviolence by introducing it to the American civil rights movement, while at the same time, bringing Martin Luther King, Jr. to the ... forefront as the focal point for nonviolence and peace. Despite the achievements that Rustin had accomplished during his career as an activist, he was beaten, silenced, imprisoned ... wrote an article called "From Protest to Politics" in which he argues that the desegregation of public places such as...
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