1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... for Jobs and Freedom, which has been one of the most famous of the non-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 ... v. Board of Education that forced the desegregation of public facilities, the schools in New York City was still segregated racially9. After the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act an...
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