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Bayard Rustin

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This episode I dive into the astonishing life of Bayard Rustin, the openly gay black man that was the mastermind behind most of the civil rights movement. He is also known as Dr Martin Luther King Jr.'s right hand man. But I give focus to not just his triumphs with the civil rights movement, but his continuous activism from the time he started college to the day he died.


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