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{{Infobox person
| name = Bayard Rustin
| image = Rustin speech enlarge.jpg
| birth_date = March 17, 1912
| birth_place = West Chester, Pennsylvania
| death_date = August 24, 1987
| death_place = Manhattan, New York
| nationality = American
| spouse =
| religion = Quaker
}}
'''Bayard Rustin''' (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was a lifelong socialist, one-time Communist, homosexual activist, and personal secretary to the Reverend Dr. [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] He was instrumental in the United States' civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, and organized the 1964 "March on Washington."
'''Bayard Rustin''' (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was a lifelong socialist, one-time Communist, homosexual activist, and personal secretary to the Reverend Dr. [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]] He was instrumental in the United States' civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, and organized the 1964 "March on Washington."