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His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long deserved a much more respected place in the history of the Civil Rights Movement.
The use of nonviolence, sit-ins, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington? Rustin is credited as the primary architect of a number of significant, effective methods and ideas used in the movement.
“Bayard Rustin was a civil rights organizer in the mass struggles for Black liberation, as well as an anti-war activist and even a labor organizer,” said Mychal Odom, an assistant professor of Black studies at San Diego Mesa College, whose work has focused on local and international Black freedom struggles, connecting the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Power Movement, and the anti-colonial struggles in Africa.
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