For six decades, Gus Newport dedicated his life to melding mobilization on the local level with diplomacy on an international stage.
Along the way, he befriended a host of political visionaries in his role as a community leader and elder statesman, including Harry Belafonte, Angela Davis, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Danny Glover, Bernie Sanders and Malcolm X — the latter who he traveled with just days before his assassination.
While Gus Newport was still relatively unknown in Berkeley at the start of the 1979 mayoral campaign, he After serving as Berkeley’s mayor from 1979 to 1986, Gus Newport directed his attention to other communities in need across the US.
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