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. ... Although Rustin struggles with the political and spiritual consequences of his homosexuality, his biographer John D'Emilio states that Rustin had remained "unusually open" about it. ... 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...

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