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Bayard Rustin: everything you need to know about the gay civil rights icon


Bayard Rustin.
Bayard Rustin, the influential gay Black advisor who inspired Martin Luther King Jr., was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence and gay rights, however he was kept in the shadows by the Civil Rights movement establishment due to his sexuality.
Bayard was also a chief strategist for MLK’s landmark March on Washington.
Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania on March 17, 1912, Bayard was arrested several times for civil disobedience and open homosexuality.
He was a fearless campaigner for equality, and used his voice to enable a fight for equality which earned him a place in history. ....

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How Philly's school names help tell its Black history


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Philadelphia’s school buildings are a tribute to its past.
That’s true of the structures themselves, some of which date back over a century.
But it’s also a nod to the people commemorated in the names of those school buildings. Those names in ways big and small help tell the city’s history.
The vast majority of public schools in the city are named after white men. (The school-namers of yore were partial to Union Civil War soldiers and former school board officials.)
Still, in a city that didn’t have a statue of a Black person on public land until 2017, school buildings are among the rare public spaces with any echo of Philadelphia’s Black history. ....

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