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“...Bayard Rustin has hewed to the line he has pursued all along. This is the line of civil rights, equality, and integration, and the strategy of the ballot, the union card, and coalition politics. While the demand for equality itself is not revolutionary, he insists that "the response that must be made in order to satisfy the demand very much is. By this I mean that justice cannot be done to blacks in the absence of a total restructuring of the political, economic, and social institutions of this country." Never willing to settle for a "symbolic victory" or a pseudo-revolution, he holds out for "nothing less than the radical refashioning of our political economy.”

Book:Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

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Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

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C. Vann Woodward

C. Vann Woodward was an American historian renowned for his in-depth studies of Southern history. His works delved into the racial relations, political, and social changes in the American South, profoundly influencing the understanding of American history. more

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