1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... alliance of sorts between the Civil Rights movement and the Democratic Party and those of the working class. With one of his proteges, Tom Kahn, Rustin wrote an article called "From Protest to Politics" in which he argues that the desegregation of public places such as hotels, schools, and libraries was essential to the broadening of the Civil Rights Movement10. He further argues that the needs of the African-American community call for ... a shift in political strategy whereby the blacks would have to ally with white unions in order to have an economic agenda ... ...
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