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Trouble Maker for Justice

by Jacqueline Houtman,

Ages: 12+

Published: 2019

Publisher: City Lights Books

ISBN: 978-0-87286-765-9

Keywords: Diversity, Civil rights, LGBTQ, Pacifism, Quakers, African Americans

Committed pacifist, passionate human rights activist, and unabashedly gay African American Bayard Rustin is presented in this thorough account. Photographs, documents, and bibliography are included in the back matter.