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==Affiliations==
*[[Committee on the Present Danger]] (1976 version)
*[[Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America]]

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	In 1966, Rustin took part in the [[Committee on Free Elections in the Dominican Republic]], a [[CIA]]-backed effort to defend elections that had been rigged against the socialist candidate, [[Juan Bosch]].<ref>Hugh Wilford, ''The Mighty Wurlitzer, How the CIA played America'', Harvard, 2008, p.186.</ref>		In 1966, Rustin took part in the [[Committee on Free Elections in the Dominican Republic]], a [[CIA]]-backed effort to defend elections that had been rigged against the socialist candidate, [[Juan Bosch]].<ref>Hugh Wilford, ''The Mighty Wurlitzer, How the CIA played America'', Harvard, 2008, p.186.</ref>
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		+	In a 1974 essay, ''American Negroes and Israel'', Rustin attacked the [[Black Panthers]] and others for equating Black support for Israel with subservience to Jewish interests.<ref>Sasha Polakow-Suransky, ''The Unspoken Alliance: Israel's Secret Relationship with Apartheid South Africa'', Pantheon, 2010, p.175.</ref>

	He refused to support the 1983 King Memorial March on Washington.<ref name="Buhle156"/>		He refused to support the 1983 King Memorial March on Washington.<ref name="Buhle156"/>

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 *1979 [[Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism]]
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-[[Bayard Rustin]] (1912-1987) was an American trade unionist and civil rights leader.<ref>[http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/rustin.cfm Bayard Rustin (1912 - 1987)], AFL-CIO, accessed 11 May 2010.</ref>
+[[Bayard Rustin]] (1912-1987) was an American trade unionist and civil rights leader.<ref>[http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/rustin.cfm Bayard Rustin (1912 - 1987)], AFL-CIO, accessed 11 May 2010.</ref> Eric Thomas Chester has described him as a representative of the [[David Dubinsky|Dubinsky]]-[[Jay Lovestone|Lovestone]] strand in the American Social Democratic tradition".<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.200.</ref>
 The son of West Immigrants to the United States, Rustin joined the [[Young Communist league]] in the 1930s. He later left to join [[A. Philip Randolph]]'s [[March on Washington]] movement during World War Two.<ref name="Buhle156">Paul Buhle, ''Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor'', Monthly Review Press, 1999, p.156.</ref>
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 A significant figure in the civil rights movement, Rustin was forced out of [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]]'s staff by the threatened revelation of his homosexuality. In 1963, he gained administration support for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.<ref name="Buhle156"/>
-He subsequently worked at the [[A. Philip Randolph Institute]] where his politics shifted steadily to the right, in opposition to King and to Black Power. He refused to support the 1983 King Memorial March on Washington.<ref name="Buhle156"/>
+He subsequently worked at the [[A. Philip Randolph Institute]] where his politics shifted steadily to the right, in opposition to King and to Black Power.<ref name="Buhle156"/>
 He was a key figure for [[AFL-CIO]] policy on Africa, notably supporting 'constructive engagement' with South Africa, and the AFL-CIO's favoured alternatives to the [[African National Congress]].<ref name="Buhle156"/>
 ==Affiliations==
 *[[Committee on the Present Danger]] (1976 version)
 *[[Committee for the Free World]]

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	[[Bayard Rustin]] (1912-1987) was an American trade unionist and civil rights leader.<ref>[http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/rustin.cfm Bayard Rustin (1912 - 1987)], AFL-CIO, accessed 11 May 2010.</ref>		[[Bayard Rustin]] (1912-1987) was an American trade unionist and civil rights leader.<ref>[http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/rustin.cfm Bayard Rustin (1912 - 1987)], AFL-CIO, accessed 11 May 2010.</ref>
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		+	The son of West Immigrants to the United States, Rustin joined the [[Young Communist league]] in the 1930s. He later left to join [[A. Philip Randolph]]'s [[March on Washington]] movement during World War Two.<ref name="Buhle156">Paul Buhle, ''Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor'', Monthly Review Press, 1999, p.156.</ref>
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		+	A significant figure in the civil rights movement, Rustin was forced out of [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]]'s staff by the threatened revelation of his homosexuality. In 1963, he gained administration support for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.<ref name="Buhle156"/>
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		+	He subsequently worked at the [[A. Philip Randolph Institute]] where his politics shifted steadily to the right, in opposition to King and to Black Power. He refused to support the 1983 King Memorial March on Washington.<ref name="Buhle156"/>
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		+	He was a key figure for [[AFL-CIO]] policy on Africa, notably supporting 'constructive engagement' with South Africa, and the AFL-CIO's favoured alternatives to the [[African National Congress]].<ref name="Buhle156"/>

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