1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... -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, and fired from ... when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus in 1955 that led to a US Supreme Court case Browder v. Gayle in 1956 that made the segregation of buses unconstit...
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