1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... 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 his 1953 arrest entered into the public record in order to tarnish Rustin's reputation and as proof of his claim, produced an FBI photo of him and Martin Luther King in the tub in King's home, bolstering his ... claim that there was a homosexual relationship between the two men8. Rustin's big contribution to the March was the fact that he had organized the bus captains ... to Politics" in which he argues that the de...
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