Bayard Rustin was a key behind-the-scenes leader of the black civil rights movement?a proponent of nonviolent protest, a mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the principal organizer of

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The Life of Bayard Rustin
Background: Bayard Rustin was a key behind-the-scenes leader of the black civil rights movement?a proponent of nonviolent protest, a mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the principal organizer of the landmark 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. And he was gay and open about it, which had everything to do with why he remained in the background and is little known today in comparison to other leaders of the civil rights movement.
Source 1: Bayard Rustin, Interview with the Washington Blade, a gay newspaper, February 15. 1986. Aired in Episode 12, Season 7 Making Gay History Podcast. Lexile? Measure: 1210L
“One of the reasons that I decided that I should no longer remain in the closet came from an experience I had as a Black. One day, in 19…, way back as far as 1947, I walked into a bus in the South, all prepared to do what I had always done in the South. Take a seat in the rear.
As I was going by the second seat to go to the rear, a white child reached out for the red necktie I was wearing and pulled it. Whereupon its mother said, “Don’t touch a n*****” Something happened, and I said to myself, If I go and sit quietly in the back of that bus now, that child who was so innocent of race relations that it was going to play with me, will have seen so many blacks go in the back and sit down quietly that it’s going to end up saying, “They like it back there, I’ve never seen anybody protest against it.” That’s what people in the South would say.
So I said, I owe it to that child, not only to my own dignity, but I owe it to that child that it should be educated to know that blacks do not want to sit in the back, and therefore I should get arrested letting all these white people in the bus know that I do not accept that.
It occurred to me shortly after that that it was an absolute necessity for me to declare homosexuality, because if I didn’t I was a part of the prejudice. I was aiding and abetting the prejudice that was a part of the effort to destroy me.”
Source 2: M.S. Handler, Negro Rally Aide Rebuts Senator, The New York Times, August 16, 1963. This article was published after the segregationist from South Carolina, Strom Thurmond, attempted to discredit the upcoming March on Washington by attacking deputy coordinator of the march Bayard Rustin, Thurmond attacked Rustin on the floor of the Senate, accused him of being a communist and submitted Rustin’s arrest records to be published, including a 1953 arrest for homosexual activity.
Bayard Rustin, organizer and operations chief for the March on Washington, Aug. 28, denied yesterday Senator Strom Thurmond’s charge that he had been a member of the Communist party. Senator Thurmond made his charges against Mr Rustin in the Senate last Tuesday. He also read police records into the Congressional Record.
Mr Rustin said that in 1938 he had joined a young communist League group at City College in New York. But he insisted that he, like many members of the youth group, never became a member of the Communist Party because the party was ultra-suspicious of young college students and had little confidence in their reliability.
Mr Rustin’s official position with the March on Washington is that of deputy director to A. Philip Randolph, chairman of the movement. The deputy director is regarded by leading civil rights leaders, including Mr. Randolph, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr,, and Roy Wilkins, as an organizer of superior talents. They fully supported him yesterday against the South Carolina Democrat.
Cites Common Fallacy (error)
Mr. Rustin emphasized that it was a common fallacy for the politically uninformed to confuse membership in the Young Communist League with membership in the Communist Party. He said he joined the League because in the general political climate of the years preceding World War II it alone impressed him as an organization sincerely attached to the pursuit of social change and the ending of racial discrimination.
Mr. Rustin related that he quit the league shortly after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June, 1941, when the league reversed its line and announced that this war would be a people’s war. The league ordered the cessation of pacifist agitation as well as actions to desegregate the United States armed forces. “As a member of a Quaker family, I regarded all wars, no matter who started them, as evil and could not accept this new line, nor could I accept the reversal of positions on desegregation,” he said. “I quit the league.”
Statement on Character
Mr. Rustin refused to deal with Senator Thurmond’s accusation that he had been sentenced on a morals charge in 1953… “An Individual involved in a character charge cannot deal with it himself. This must be done by my peers who as you know are the Christian Ministers of the Negro communities and the civil rights leaders. They have the responsibility for the moral and Christian leadership of the Negro people. Character is a matter of judgment within the context of a whole life. It is for my peers to judge me and my life.”
An aid who was present at the conversation with Mr. Rustin said that the Negro Ministry felt that Mr. Rustin had redeemed himself many times with his record of achievement. Dr. King rallied to Mr Rustin’s support yesterday and praised his abilities and achievements. Mr. Rustin was secretary to Dr. King from 1955 to 1960. Mr. Randolph also issued a statement giving support to Mr. Rustin. “I am sure I speak for the combined Negro leadership in voicing my complete confidence in Bayard Rustin’s character, integrity, and extraordinary ability. Twenty-two arrests in the fight for civil rights attest, in my mind, to Mr. Rustin’s dedication to high human ideals. That Mr Rustin was on one occasion arrested in another connection has long been a matter of public record, and not an object of concealment. There are those who contend that this incident, which took place many years ago, voids or overwhelms Mr. Rustin’s ongoing contribution to the struggle for human rights. I hold otherwise. I am dismayed that there are in this country men who, wrapping themselves in the mantle of Christian morality, would mutilate the most elementary conceptions of human decency, privacy, and humility in order to persecute other men. We are not fooled, however, into believing that these men are interested in Mr. Rustin. They seek only to discredit the movement.”

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