1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... upon had cost him in the long run to prove to others that he was indeed a leader who should have played a bigger role in the civil rights movement. As a gay man, Rustin was the target of American leaders such as Strom Thurmond, who had his entire arrest file put into the Congressional Record, despite the fact that his attempt to blackmail Rustin ... Conference. There were some concerns from African-American leaders that Rustin's sexuality and his ties to the Communists would undermine the goals of the Civil Rights Movement in which Adam Clayton Powell had a role in as a member of the SC...
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