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This activist enlisted celebrities like Arthur Ashe in founding the Black Americans to Support Israel Committee, or BASIC. This activist’s collected writings, A Time on Two Crosses, recounts his time as an election observer in Zimbabwe, where he met with then-union leader Morgan Tsvangirai (“CHANG-guh-rye”). This activist wrote that the main barrier to Black advancement was not “civil rights, […] but social and economic conditions” in the essay “From Protest to Politics,” written after his turn to conservatism. (10[1]-5[2])In 2020, (10[1])Gavin Newsom posthumously pardoned this activist for violating “morals” (10[1])laws. (10[2])This activist purchased an expensive sound system for an event he organized (10[1])with A. Philip Randolph. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[5])name this activist who, (10[1])despite being the primary organizer (10[1])of the (10[1])1963 (10[1])March on Washington, was sidelined for his homosexuality. (10[2])■END■ (10[3]0[5])

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