Bayard Rustin: A Hero in the Shadows

 
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Bayard Rustin: A Hero in the Shadows

by Rev. Dr. Roger Jones

Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento

Sunday, January 18, 2026

For this M.L. King Sunday, we learn about and remember the hidden organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, Bayard Rustin (1912-1987).  African American and openly gay, Rustin’s brilliant resistance methods and self-affirming honesty were rooted in the Quaker spirituality of the grandmother who reared him.  In these times, his life serves both to challenge us and inspire us.

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