As Devon Carbado and Donald Wiese argued that "perhaps no other figure contributed so much to the civil rights movement yet been so penalized by it" 5. ... 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 African-Americans, but Rustin's main argument is that he had concerns about...

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