1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... -violent marches in United States history. He had used Gandhi's tactics of nonviolence by introducing it to the American civil rights movement, while at the same time, bringing Martin Luther King, Jr. to the forefront as the focal point for nonviolence and peace. Despite the achievements that Rustin had accomplished during his career as an activist, he was beaten, silenced, imprisoned, and fired from different organizations ... by Rustin and A. Philip Randolph on May 17, 1957 that was supported by the president of the NAACP, Roy Wilkins as a way to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of the Br...
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