Bayard Rustin, Gay Civil Rights Leader, Is Pardoned in California

Bayard Rustin, Gay Civil Rights Leader, Is Pardoned in California

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Mr. Rustin, who died in 1987, helped plan the Montgomery bus boycott and the March on Washington, but his legacy was tarnished by a 1953 conviction under laws targeting L.G.B.T.Q. people.

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