Part 2: Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin's Role in Organizing the March on Washington
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- www.democracyno... - In part two of our interview about the trailblazing civil rights activist Bayard Rustin as he is set to posthumously receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, we continue our conversation with former NAACP chair Julian Bond and Rustin's partner, Walter Naegle. Rustin played a central role in organizing the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which the nation is set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of in the coming weeks.
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Naegle reads from badges he brings to show and describes the march's demands, which are one small part of the vast unknown history of the event remembered primarily for Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. "The first demand was comprehensive and effective civil rights legislation from the present Congress, without compromise or filibuster, to guarantee all Americans access to all public accommodations, decent housing, adequate and integrated education, the right to vote," Nagle says. "The second one was withholding of federal funds from all programs in which discrimination exists. The third was desegregation of all school districts in 1963. The fourth was enforcement of the 14th Amendment, reducing congressional representation of states where citizens are disenfranchised. The fifth was a new executive order banning discrimination in all housing supported by federal funds. The sixth was authority for the attorney general to institute injunctive suits when any constitutional right is violated. The seventh was a massive federal program to train and place all unemployed workers, Negro and white, on meaningful and dignified jobs at decent wages. The eighth was a national minimum wage act that will give all Americans a decent standard of living. Government surveys show that anything less than $2 an hour fails to do this. Number nine was a broad and fair labor standards act to include all areas of employment which are presently excluded. And the last, number 10, a federal fair employment practices act barring discrimination by federal, state and municipal governments and by employers, contractors, employment agencies and trade unions."
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Love that slip on Walter's name, lol.
God Bless Him
Randolph, Dr. King, John Lewis, Adam Clayton and etc., All were self-serving and not 100% authentic. Yes, they cared about the civil Rights movement, but they did not care about black gays as well as the other pertinent issues, if it meant compromising their political and own self-interest. Bayard Rustin was 100% real.
Those civil rights activist didn't have to necessarily correlate the Vietnam war with the civil Rights movement. However, Rustin was correct, because at the end of the day you have to talk about it since they were sending and drafting all the blacks to go over there, especially the poor ones.
They even drafted Muhammad Ali to go over there and put him in jail because he didn't go and ruined his fighting career, because they barred him from competing. Dr King was a sellout just like the rest of them. Yes they did some good, but they always promoted their self first.
Yeah, you got that civil Rights bill signed, but what did it really mean. Right after that Johnson sent all the blacks over there to that Vietnam war to fight his war.
Bayard Rustin was an FBI informer and a CIA-paid worker. Odama is sadly informed. and intellectually dumb.
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