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Bayard Rustin, Bureau of Prisons mug shot, February 1944.
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Credit: Bureau of Prisons

After a federal court sentenced him to three years in prison for failing to report for his Selective Service physical exam-most COs received a sentence of one year and a day- Bayard Rustin was incarcerated in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Kentucky. There, his protests against racial segregation resulted in his transfer to the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where he served out the remainder of his time.

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