1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
A master strategist and an activist for Civil Rights, Bayard Rustin is mostly remembered for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which has been one of the most famous of the non-violent marches in United States history. He had used Gandhi's tactics of nonviolence by introducing it to the American civil rights movement, while at the same time, bringing Martin Luther King, Jr. to the forefront as the focal point for nonviolence and peace. ... Other historians have argued that the main reason why Rustin was written out of the history books is because he stayed true to a social agen...
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