Check out this feature on Creative Writing minor Connor Nakamura in Penn Today! Connor's research into the life and legacy of civil rights organizer Bayard Rustin took him to the archives of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection and the New York Public Library’s Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. His work culminated in his senior thesis, “Cloaked Radicalism: Bayard Rustin and the Socialist Civil Rights Strategy,” which documents Rustin’s life from 1955 to 1965, when he was thinking, theorizing, and grappling on a practical level with how a movement based around nonviolence in the American South could solve other issues around the country.
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