1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
... backstage role since his arrest in Pasadena in 1953 on sodomy charges that led to his firing from the Fellowship of Reconciliation and prior to his involvement in the War Resisters League as well as bringing attention to his sexuality, in which homosexuality was against the law during the 1950s until ... the public record in order to tarnish Rustin's reputation and as proof of his claim, produced an FBI photo of him and Martin Luther King in the tub in King's home, bolstering his claim that there was a homosexual relationship between the two men8. Rustin's big contribution to the March wa...
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