1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... give Rustin credit for organizing the march because of his homosexuality. After the March on Washington, Rustin had turned his focus to the 1968 New York City School Boycott that resulted in Jewish teachers being forced out and also adding to the fact that despite the Supreme Court ruling in Brown 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 and the subsequent 1965 Voting Rights Act, Rustin had begun to hopefully create ... as an extension of the C...
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