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SOUL Sisters Leadership Collective

3 days ago

#BlackAugust

Uplifting Bayard Rustin, fierce civil rights activist and strategist, best known for organizing the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Bayard Rustin introduced Martin Luther King Jr. to Gandhi and nonviolent resistance tactics, and operated with influences from Quaker pacifism and the values of socialism. Rustin also lived as an openly gay man, and was often targeted for brutality and arrests. From protesting segregation on public transportation to protesting nuclear warfare, Rustin's experience with the prison industrial complex spanned from jail time to hard labor in chain gangs, yet he still continued his fight for justice until his death in 1987.

With his mentor A. Phillip Randolph, they co-founded the A. Phillip Randolph Institute in 1965 to serve African-American trade union members. As the Institute was formed to unify labor rights and civil rights, we are reminded that socially conscious economic stability is a vital combination in the fight for liberation of oppressed peoples. With our Youth Social Entrepreneurship program, S.O.U.L. Sisters is proud to build on this legacy by connecting our girls and non-binary youth of color to job readiness skills that are framed in social justice action and sisterhood values.

Please continue to support our work at ed.gr/bsl2e so we can fund our youth's visions for culturally-rooted, social justice apparel. Check out our website to see past creations with local businesses! ... See MoreSee Less

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