1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... , Rustin had also advised Dr. King in the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 which started 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 unconstitutional uner the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution. In the following year, Rustin and Dr. King ... in the campaign. During the 1970s, Rustin once more shifted his focus to the labor movement in which he saw this movement as the model for empowering the African-American community and having economic justice for all A...
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