Walter Naegle
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Walter Naegle, a boardmember emeritus of the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, became interested in nonviolence and social justice in the 1960s. As a teenager, he was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement. In 1977, he met Bayard Rustin, becoming partners until Rustin's passing. In 2013, he accepted Rustin’s posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama. Naegle has volunteered with various organizations and co-authored “Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin.”