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Posted by Ted Gee Seal, Thu Jan-15-15 09:38 PM
>Bayard Rustin, a gay man who was an American leader in social
>movements for civil rights, socialism, pacifism and
>non-violence, and gay rights, took leave from the War
>Resisters League in 1956 to advise Martin Luther King Jr. on
>Gandhian tactics. King was organizing the public
>transportation boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, known as the
>Montgomery Bus Boycott. According to Rustin, "I think it's
>fair to say that Dr. King's view of non-violent tactics was
>almost non-existent when the boycott began. In other words,
>Dr. King was permitting himself and his children and his home
>to be protected by guns."
>
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