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sheshe2

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2. A Medal of Honor, that he so richly deserves!
Sun Aug 25, 2013, 11:44 PM
Aug 2013

It’s nice to be living in an era when a person who is black, gay, and pacifist with a life like Bayard Rustin’s can receive such an award. More than anyone else I can think of, Bayard Rustin fits the description of a Pennsylvania progressive hero. Perhaps like many of you, when I encounter people that think political participation doesn’t matter, one of the easiest examples I jump to to disprove that belief is the 1960?s civil rights movement and the real-life impact it had on our society. Bayard Rustin is an unsung hero of that movement, but much, much more. He was a lifelong activist that tried to push FDR to the left and was openly gay decades before he mentored Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He died a year before I was born, so I send you a belated RIP from the realm of the as-yet-living, Mr. Rustin, and I hope that reading your story will inspire others to keep up the fight as much as it has inspired me. Special thanks to Amy Goodman and everyone else at Democracy Now! for recognizing the story of Bayard Rustin as the major story it is and enlightening me – and hopefully you – with it.

http://www.keystonepolitics.com/2013/08/bayard-rustin-pa-native-unsung-hero-of-the-1963-march-on-washington-lifelong-activist/

Thanks for sharing it here Cha!

BOG

Recommended. (nt) NYC_SKP Aug 2013 #1
Mahalo, kiddo! Cha Aug 2013 #4
A Medal of Honor, that he so richly deserves! sheshe2 Aug 2013 #2
Truely Inspiring, she.. Cha Aug 2013 #5
Thanks very much. DreamGypsy Aug 2013 #3
Love that pic of Bayard Rustin, mahalo DreamGypsy! Cha Aug 2013 #6
Na'u ka hau'oli, Cha. (nt) DreamGypsy Aug 2013 #8
Mine as well, DreamGypsy! :) Cha Aug 2013 #12
Salute! Aristus Aug 2013 #7
Well Aristus~ sheshe2 Aug 2013 #9
Good to see you, too. Aristus Aug 2013 #10
Mahalo, Aristus! Cha Aug 2013 #13
K&R! Good job. Tarheel_Dem Aug 2013 #11
Mahalo Tarheel! Cha Aug 2013 #14
KnR. I saw the CNN special today (Sunday) and it was fascinating Hekate Aug 2013 #15
That's so wonderful that cnn did that Special, Hekate! Cha Aug 2013 #16
I didn't know that. Thanks grantcart Aug 2013 #17
You're welcome, grant. I remember reading about Cha Aug 2013 #18
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