1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... to resign from the SCLC in 1960 after Powell had threatened to bring up Rustin's Pasadena arrest in Congress and also because Powell was concerned that his power in the Black community would be diminished by Rustin. Prior to the March on Washington, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond painted Rustin as a "draft dodger, a Communist, and a homosexual" and having his ... ...
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