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rdfs:label	Bayard Rustin
rdfs:comment	HRustine counseled Martin Luther King Jr on the techniques of nonviolent resistance. He became an advocate on behalf of gay and lesbian causes in the latter part of his career. Homosexuality was criminalized at the time, which made him a target of suspicion and compromised some of his effectiveness. Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an American civil rights activist, important largely behind the scenes in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and earlier, and principal organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He counseled Martin Luther King, Jr. on the techniques of nonviolent resistance. Rustin was openly gay [1] and advocated on behalf of gay and lesbian causes in the latter part of his career.
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Movement	African-American Civil Rights Movement, Peace Movement, Gay Rights Movement
Name	Bayard Rustin
Caption	--08-27
PlaceOfBirth	West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Influences	W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, A. J. Muste, A. Philip Randolph, James L. Farmer, Jr.
DateOfDeath	Aug. 24, 1987
Religion	Quaker
DateOfBirth	Mar. 17, 1912
Organizations	Fellowship of Reconciliation, Congress of Racial Equality, Southern Christian Leadership Conference
influenced	Martin Luther King, Jr.
abstract	HRustine counseled Martin Luther King Jr on the techniques of nonviolent resistance. He became an advocate on behalf of gay and lesbian causes in the latter part of his career. Homosexuality was criminalized at the time, which made him a target of suspicion and compromised some of his effectiveness. Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an American civil rights activist, important largely behind the scenes in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and earlier, and principal organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He counseled Martin Luther King, Jr. on the techniques of nonviolent resistance. Rustin was openly gay [1] and advocated on behalf of gay and lesbian causes in the latter part of his career. A year before his death in 1987, Rustin said: "The barometer of where one is on human rights questions is no longer the black community, it's the gay community. Because it is the community which is most easily mistreated."