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Bayard Rustin: The Gay Quaker Socialist Who Organized a Revolution

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Bayard Rustin: The Gay Quaker Socialist Who Organized a Revolution

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Bayard Rustin — from teenage civil rights organizer to hero of the historic 1963 March on Washington - Freedom Socialist Party

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With his passionate commitment to civil and labor rights and his outsized organizing talents, Bayard Rustin helped to shape the Civil Rights Movement.

From teenage civil rights organizer to hero of the historic 1963 March on Washington

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I’m a Mormon-Satanist, but for a long time before that, I was a Quaker–I’m still very much influenced by them. And this guy was one of my favorite Quaker socialists.

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