Bayard Rustin

In researching this post, I learned I have a couple of things in common with a leader of the civil rights and labor movements.

Bayard Rustin was born in West Chester, PA, very near where I've lived for decades.  He attended Cheyney, at that time a state teachers college but since then a university, at which I was lucky enough to teach.

Rustin trained in India with Gandhi; applied that training to a variety of civil disobedience efforts; and became the chief tactician for activities like the boycott of the public bus system in Montgomery, Alabama.