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Bayard Rustin: The Man Behind the March on Washington (2021)

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The Last Sprint to the March on Washington

Cris Byard is a former communist, black socialist and conscientious objector. He was on the outskirts of the racial justice movement when he became involved with it in 19 63. With the march just a few leeks away, things were going according to byrot's an. But j edgar hoover, the notoriously shady director of the fbi at the time, tried to dig up some dirt on people linked to the march. When we come back, the final sprint to the march on washington, and a government plot that nearly derailed it all.

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