These are two readings intended for students studying American History, African American History, the American Civil Rights Movement, California/Washington D.C./North Carolina history, history of organized labor, and history of LGBT+ rights in the United States. Educators should be aware before providing these assignments that Bayard Rustin was arrested in 1953 when caught having sex with another man, and was placed on the California Sex Offender Registry until his posthumous pardon in 2020, six