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Another of Rustin's socialist mentors was the pacifist A. J. Muste, leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR). FOR hired Rustin as a race relations secretary in the late summer of 1941. [22] He considered Rustin to be a fine young man of oratorical ability and intelligence who would sacrifice himself repeatedly for a good cause. [23]
Feb 16, 2018 · On the anti-side was Bayard Rustin, a pacifist Quaker and close adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. On the pro-side was Malcolm X, nationalist minister of the Nation of Islam.
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Jan 30, 2023 · A pacifist, Rustin protested World War II by resisting the draft and, as a result, was imprisoned in 1944 as a conscientious objector. In these Aug. 3, 1945, images, Bayard Rustin is seen in ...
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Nov 17, 2023 · In his personal philosophy, Rustin combined the pacifism of the Quaker religion, the nonviolent resistance taught by Mahatma Gandhi, and the socialism espoused by labor leader A. Philip Randolph ...
Nov 2, 2023 · At the same time, the events of the early 1940s forced Rustin to make difficult decisions about his convictions, with “the tension between the demands of a pacifist organization and the appeal ...
Apr 29, 2024 · After finishing high school, Rustin held odd jobs, traveled widely, and obtained five years of university schooling at the City College of New York and other institutions without taking a degree. Rustin became a foe of racial segregation and a lifelong believer in pacifist agitation. He worked for the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a ...
Besides his identities as African American, Quaker, and radical pacifist, Bayard Rustin was also a gay man. The 1930s and 1940s were years in which homosexual behavior was criminalized in every state, condemned by every religious community of faith, and categorized as an illness by mental health professionals.
