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Bayard Rustin

1912 – 1987

Pennsylvania; New York; national

Quaker-raised pacifist Bayard Rustin co-founded CORE, advised Martin Luther King Jr., and was deputy director of the 1963 March on Washington; his homosexuality and past communist ties were used against him.

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Bayard Rustin (left) with Cleveland Robinson outside March on Washington headquarters, Harlem, August 1963
Credit: Orlando Fernandez, New York World-Telegram & Sun, Library of Congress. License: Public domain (no known copyright restrictions, LOC).

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  1. Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Stanford University, "Rustin, Bayard" (Scholarly)
  2. National Park Service, "Bayard Rustin" (Primary source)

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