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Bayard Rustin

Strategist behind the 1963 March on Washington; openly gay civil rights organizer.

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Born 1912 in West Chester, PA. Mentored MLK Jr. in Gandhian nonviolence after returning from India in 1948. Posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.

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West Chester, PA, USA

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