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Bayard Rustin
… as the first executive director of the AFL-CIO's A. Philip Randolph Institute, he worked closely with the labor movement to ensure African American workers' rightful place in the House of Labor. Born in West Chester, Pa., on March 17, 1912, … which he was arrested. Rustin attended Wilberforce University in Ohio, and Cheney State Teachers College. Rustin decided to dedicate himself to the cause of peace and civil rights. In 1937, he volunteered with the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Quaker …