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...late 1940s that Rustin found his real calling--initiating one of the first Freedom Rides through the South to protest and confront legal segregation and becoming a key background figure in encouraging the desegregation of the armed forces. As an advocate of pacifism and nonviolence, Rustin was critical in advising a young and still uncertain Martin Luther King Jr. on how to conduct an effective civil rights protest in Montgomery, Ala. But Rustin's greatest achievement was organizing the 1963 March on Washington, immortalized by King's "I Have a Dream" speech. Thereafter, Rustin never gave up his advocacy...
...Touborg said that the university had been working to correct the problem before the protest and that it had since been resolved...
About 40 janitors and 10 members of the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) presented three grievances—late paychecks, unobserved seniority rights, and university interference with union meetings—in a protest outside of the Science Center on Friday...
...third grievance aired at the protest Friday concerned a union meeting that took place at Jefferson-Lyman Laboratories two weeks...
PSLM members involved in the protest did not return calls for comment...