The national director emeritus of the Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, has publicly canceled his subscription to the New York Times,... In 1942, Bayard helped launch the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) which in 1946 organized the first “Freedom Ride” to integrate interstate transportation. He also worked with the Quaker civil rights organization the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which peacefully protested segregation during and after the war. Rustin was also a gay man at a time when being gay was a crime. After the war, Rustin said that had he understood earlier the full extent of the evil of Nazism — he would have found a way to fight the Nazis, even as a pacifist.