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Trustees relent, agree
to name school after
rights pioneer Rustin
By Dan Robrish
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA — Bayard Rustin was
gay, a pacifist who refused to fight in World
War II and a one-time Communist — three
strikes against him in the conservative
Philadelphia suburb where he grew up.
But he was also the man who organized the
1963 rally where Martin Luther King Jr. deliv-
ered his "I have a dream" speech, and sup-
porters of the late civil rights leader won a bat-
tle to name a school after him Monday.
The West Chester Area School Board voted
6-3 to name a new high school after Rustin, a
1931 graduate of West Chester High School
who began his activism for racial equality
while still a youth.
Rustin, who was black, recounted those
days in a 1981 speech he made at West Chester
Henderson High School.
"There was not a single restaurant in this
town that I could eat in. There was not a single
theater in this town that I could go to," Rustin
said in the speech. A videotape of the speech
was played at Monday night's school board
meeting.
Some say Rustin, who was a Quaker, was
responsible for getting King to embrace paci-
fism; in the mid-1950s, there were guns made
in King's home.
Opponents of naming the school after
Rustin acknowledged his work in the civil
rights movement, but said they were troubled
because he was gay, because he went to prison
rather than serve in World War II and because
he was briefly a member of a Communist
youth group in the 1930s.
"If every one of the 16 million men and
women of the armed forces refused to serve
our country, we would be speaking German
and Japanese," area resident Marvin
Baughman said at the board meeting.
West Chester Borough Councilman William
J. Scott, who attended the meeting and sup-
ported naming the school after Rustin, said he
was inspired by the video of Rustin's speech.
"They showed this tape and the man really
made his own case," Scott said. "He stood up
as a great role model. ... He helped integrate
the restaurants, the theaters, the facilities in the
school."
School board member June Cardosi, who
opposed naming the school for Rustin, said
she was disappointed but not surprised by the
vote. She said Rustin's association with
Communists continued well into his adult-
hood, even though he later repudiated the
party. She said she felt Rustin's decision to
encourage others to refuse to serve in the war
was worse than his personal refusal and that
she also was bothered by Rustin's sexual activ-
ities.
"My objection isn't simply that he was a
homosexual... but he really had some serious
problems with his homosexuality; he was
promiscuous; he was thrown out of two col-
leges," Cardosi said.
The school board voted last spring to name
the $63 million school after Rustin, but
reopened the discussion after some members
said they were not fully aware of his past.
Rustin's supporters say he is easily'West
Chester's most noted, and important, gradu-
ate.
For a half-century, Rustin was a relentless
soldier for civil rights, although much of his
work was conducted behind the scenes out of
fear that the public wouldn't accept an openly
gay activist.
After his release from prison following
World War II, Rustin traveled south to agitate
against segregation in what is credited as
being the first Freedom Ride. In 1955, he
helped organize the Montgomery, Ala., bus
boycott begun by Rosa Parks.
He was the lead organizer of the 1963
March on Washington, D.C., considered by
many historians to be the pivotal moment in
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2 girls named school's 'cutest couple'
CRETE, 111. — Two girls — longtime high In the end, the girls' parents — though a bit
school sweethearts — were voted "cutest cou- shell-shocked — agreed to let a photograph of
pie" by their fellow seniors at Crete-Monee the couple appear in the school yearbook.
High School in the suburbs south of Chicago. And last week, district superintendent
Administrators balked, at first. Then sever- Roberta Berry wrote a letter praising the stu-
al students walked out of class to support the dents at Crete-Monee High. "I am proud to say
girls. that while other schools continue to address
It is a drama that, for a time anyway, awak- issues such as alienation, bullying and hate
ened this sleepy town, lined with antique crimes, we have a student body that not only
shops, churches and cafes, and still surround- accepts each others' differences, but also cele-
ed by com fields. brates them," Berry wrote. T
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