1. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
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 in the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1956 which started when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus in 1955 that led to a US Supreme Court case Browder v. ... King had begun preparations to create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. ... Prior to the March on Washington, South Carolina ...
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