After the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the subsequent 1965 Voting Rights Act, Rustin had begun to hopefully create an alliance of sorts between the Civil Rights movement and the Democratic Party and those of the working class. ... During the Poor People's Campaign in 1968, which begun after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr on April 4, Rustin opposed the campaign due to his concerns about civil disobedience in which he argued that the plans were vague and had lacked any direction as well as it did not address the key issues of the day, specifically the income for Afr...

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One of the most noted turning points in American History is the Civil Rights Movement. Almost every aspect of this country today, would not be the same if it was not for the African American leaders that stood up in their communities during the mid 1900's and preached words of a United States that w...

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"This response to a published statement by eight fellow clergymen from Alabama (Bishop C. C. J. Carpenter, Bishop Joseph A. Durick, Rabbi Hilton L. Grafman, Bishop Paul Hardin, Bishop Holan B. Harmon, the Reverend George M. Murray, the Reverend Edward V. Ramage and the Reverend Earl Stallings) was c...

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