... Washington, South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond painted Rustin as a "draft dodger, a Communist, and a homosexual" and having his 1953 arrest entered into 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 ... which he assisted by future Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, despite the opposition leaders, specifically NAACP Chair Roy Wilkins not wanting to give Rustin credit for organizing the...

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