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... Bayard came to New York and eked out a living singing folk and Negro songs with Josh White and Leadbelly ( had he so chosen , Bayard could have had a significant career as a singer ) . During those years he was at- tracted by the ...
... Bayard came to New York and eked out a living singing folk and Negro songs with Josh White and Leadbelly ( had he so chosen , Bayard could have had a significant career as a singer ) . During those years he was at- tracted by the ...
Page 100
... Bayard Rustin was the youth organizer of the March on Washington Movement . He had learned from Randolph the theory and practice of building mass movements that com- bined the demand for racial justice with an insistence upon economic ...
... Bayard Rustin was the youth organizer of the March on Washington Movement . He had learned from Randolph the theory and practice of building mass movements that com- bined the demand for racial justice with an insistence upon economic ...
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... Bayard used to speak of " social dislocation " -a disruption of normal social life that would force society to adopt certain policies because the cost of not doing so would be too high . Bayard formulated that strategy in terms of the ...
... Bayard used to speak of " social dislocation " -a disruption of normal social life that would force society to adopt certain policies because the cost of not doing so would be too high . Bayard formulated that strategy in terms of the ...
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