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

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch85556 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10063-10218 2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 . . . . - 758 RUSTIN, Bayard 1. Noted negro ciL - rights leader..and jeace worker. Born 1,7J2areh 1913 in West Chester. enn. He resides i New York City. 2. Subject admitte has had numerouzs contacts with CP members and CP front groups altho, itli there is no infe-;ition to indicate that he is now a' Communist of Asympathizer. A cursory review of voluminous information indicates that RUSTIN maintains contact with CP affiliated groups and their members to further his own work in the civil righta movement and peace crusades. Subject appears dedicated to hs cause but is hampered somewhat by irres ibility and `# # a homoslxual problem. - 3. He`is a member of the Young Communist League (193,091j2..), the American Student Union 19).and an active member fthf iateraLeague In 1957 Subject attended the 16th National Convention of the CPUSA as - a non-Communist observer and represenative of the War oesiaters League. In July 1950 he stated that he was formerly 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 S ,hern Christian Leadership..C4ference and Deputy Direct or of theJ.6 -96 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. - - .9 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 Muslims on their teachings of hate and their desire to sep up a seperate state for themselves. 5. In 1958 Subject trae-lJd to London, England to participate in a protest against Brit insjmanufactae...of nuc3lear weapons. The London protest was organizwd by an Affiliate ## organization of the Campaign for Nuclear Dis- armament, -a communist front group. B otO~ ReroduGe

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