Scandalous, Episode 2: Bayard Rustin

Coming Out Christian's mini-season "Scandalous" continues as Siobhan Boyd-Nelson and the Rev. Dr. Ben Huelskamp welcome back the Rev. Dr. Mashaun D. Simon to discuss a holy tantrum thrower whose legacy has too often been pushed into the shadows: Bayard Rustin.

Born in 1912 to teenage parents and raised by his grandparents, Rustin was shaped by his grandmother Julia's Quaker faith, a faith he lived out for the rest of his life, from his training as a conscientious objector to his practice of nonviolence even while imprisoned. That same faith carried him into the heart of the Civil Rights Movement, where, largely uncredited, he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and orchestrated the 1963 March on Washington.

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