Lessons can be learned from history to help us in current struggles. The Civil Rights movement of the mid-1950s to the late 1960s is one of monumental milestones and lessons, not only because of its triumphs, but because of the nuance, complexities, and even contradictions that we can dissect and an...

Interesting article. Bayard Rustin was also an anti-communist but considered himself a socialist. He was often lumped in with “the Establishment.” He did work with MLK, Jr., who himself worked with communists, but he was considered to the right of MLK. Still, he did leave a legacy and was considered good a politicking and getting what he and his constituency wanted, from what I understand.