1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
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. He had used Gandhi's tactics of nonviolence by introducing it to the American civil ... had remained "unusually open" about it. The first contribution that Bayard Rustin had created as an activist is the Journey of Reconciliation in 1947 in which he, as a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation as well as a member of the American Friends Service Committee along wit...
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