1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... due to the fact that he was formerly tied to the Communist movement. 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 ... Pasadena arrest in Congress and also because Powell was concerned that his power in the Black community would be diminished by Rustin. Prior to the March on Washington, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond painted Rustin as a "draft dodger, a Communist, and a homosexual" and having h...
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