Texas Law Review, April 1st, 2004
Introduction Boyard Rustin was the consummate civil rights strategist and humanitarian.1 Indeed, he shaped the course of social protest for some thirty years.2 First as political adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr. and later as leader of the 1963 March on Washington, Rustin influenced the black protest agenda in ways that few activists had before him or would even after his death.3 For example, Rustin helped to integrate nonviolent direct action into the civil rights movement, and if he were remembered for nothing more than this, his reputation would be enshrined in African-American protest an...
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