Bayard Rustin: A Hero in the Shadows
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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