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Bayard Rustin: A civil rights biography

This Study traces the contributions of Bayard Rustin (1912--1987) to the civil rights movement, contending that Rustin formally introduced the tactics of nonviolence and nonviolent direct action to the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., despite a knowledge of and fascination with the nonviolent direct action strategies used by Mohandas K. Gandhi to win India's independence from Great Britain, did not view them as viable weapons in the black American struggle for equal rights. In a series of critical discussions, Rustin was able to convince King of the efficacy of these strategies and the need to impose them on the protest in Montgomery. From that point on, King began to think of the bus boycott in nonviolence and nonviolent direct action terms.

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  • "This Study traces the contributions of Bayard Rustin (1912--1987) to the civil rights movement, contending that Rustin formally introduced the tactics of nonviolence and nonviolent direct action to the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., despite a knowledge of and fascination with the nonviolent direct action strategies used by Mohandas K. Gandhi to win India's independence from Great Britain, did not view them as viable weapons in the black American struggle for equal rights. In a series of critical discussions, Rustin was able to convince King of the efficacy of these strategies and the need to impose them on the protest in Montgomery. From that point on, King began to think of the bus boycott in nonviolence and nonviolent direct action terms."@en
  • "Conscious of the need for a south wide campaign to destroy segregation in public accommodations, education, voting, and intrastate transit, Rustin conceived of an organization that would provide support and coordination to the spontaneous, local grassroots protests that erupted in the wake of the success of the Montgomery bus boycott. Named the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) with King as its head, the organization later came to embody nonviolent direct action as King came to embody nonviolence. Despite the handicaps of being a member of the Young Communist League in his youth, a conscientious objector, and a homosexual, Rustin functioned as a close and trusted advisor to King from 1956 to 1960, capping his civil rights career as the principal organizer of the historic 1963 March on Washington."@en
  • "This study addresses the influences that shaped the civil rights movement using archival materials, interviews, FBI files, and other primary sources. It concludes that Rustin was critical to the introduction of nonviolence and nonviolent direct action to that movement."@en

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