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104-10063-10218 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (11/5/1967)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch08132 and id is 1 raw text is: RUSTIN, Bayard 1. Noted negro ci, t rights leader.and eace worker, Born 17..asPh 1913 in West Chester. enn. He resides 1 New York City. 2. Subject admitte has had numerous contacts with OP. members and CP front groupsjaltho-t-h there in no infc'1i.rtion to indicate that he is now a*Communist of -A sympathizsr. A curaury review of voluminous information indicates that RUSTIN maintains contact with CP affiliated groups and their members to further his own work in the civil rights movement and peace crusades. Subject appears dedicated to hbs cause but is hampered somewhat by irres 4ibility ari #### a homosllxual problem. 3, Hldas a member of the Young Communist Leape _L9362AA.), the Amaric.n Student op (129). and an active mgmb htLeague* In 1957 Subject attended the 16th National Convention of the CPUSA as a non-Communist observer and represenative of the War Fweisters League0 In July 3950 he stated that he was formery a member of the CP but was no longer so affiliated. Subject has also been a member of the National Committee for Non-Violent Action. He was Secretary # to Martin Luther KING from 1956 to 1960 and in 1962 he was Assistant Secretary for the So hern Christia I cashbip, erence and Deputy Directqr.of.the_1s6l March on Washington. L. In 1961 RUSTIN spoke at a meeting of the Monroe Defense Committee in New York City# taking a more militant approach to the civil rights movement. In this speach Subject stated that there was a breakdown in law enforcement on all levels in the South and it was not only the right but the duty of negros to furnish their own protection, by armed force if necessary' and to establish their own police forces, In April 1962, Subject debated MALCOLM X and stated that he was not in accord with the Muslimic on their teachings of hate and their desire to sop up a seperate state for themselves- 5. In 1958 Subject tra.§led to London, England to participate in a protest against Britiins.manufacia.u.f.nuc-)earq weapons._The London protest was organizud by an Affiliate # organization of the Campaign for Nuclear Dis- armament, -a communist front group. a9 g oduce

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