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. ... King to remove Rustin from his staff. ... King had begun preparations to create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. ... Prior to the March on 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'...

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