1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... CORE also took part in this non-violent action to allow for interstate transportation in light of the Irene Morgan decision that the US Supreme Court had handed down one year earlier that allowed for desegregation of interstate travel, but the South did not recognize that decision, so the protesters were arrested and sentenced to time on a chain gang all over the South, including Rustin for ... 30 days in North Carolina. Another contribution that Rustin ... had made to the Civil Rights Movement that historians have not heard of ... ...
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