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communism

Bayard Rustin Oral History, excerpt

Bayard Rustin was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, on March 12, 1912.

Hotel Pennsylvania Meeting Learns of Harlem School Ills

On April 16, 1937, Lucile Spence and the Teachers Union of New York organized a conference at the Hotel Pennsylvania in downtown Manhattan to discuss schools in Harlem.