1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... his 1953 arrest on sexual charges in order to force Dr. King to remove Rustin from his staff. Rustin was also the target of J. Edgar Hoover during the late 1950s and early 1960s due to the fact that he was formerly tied to the Communist movement. Hoover had requested Attorney General Robert Kennedy to authorize electronic surveillance on him, in which Kennedy authorized and ... for all Americans in which he made significant contributions to both the political portion of the labor movement as well as the economic portion of the labor movement. In 1972, Rustin, with the support of the AFL...
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