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Aug 28, 2013 · On the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, we remember its key organizer, Medal of Freedom winner Bayard Rustin. Today our nation marks the 50th anniversary of the March…
Jan 14, 2024 · Civil rights activist Bayard Rustin was the unstoppable force who made the historic March on Washington happen in 1963. The mass of peaceful protest is credited with helping to pass the Civil ...
Feb 5, 2020 · California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a posthumous pardon for Rustin on Tuesday, part of a new initiative to grant clemency to people who were prosecuted in California for being gay.
Nov 18, 2023 · Produced by Barack Obama and starring Colman Domingo, Netflix movie "Rustin" tells the true story of Black gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
Sep 12, 2023 · Bayard Rustin has been extolled as an avatar of intersectionality, yet throughout his career he repeatedly challenged progressive orthodoxies.
May 20, 2022 · Bayard Rustin was a civil rights activist who advised Martin Luther King Jr. and was deputy director for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He became a leading figure in the Civil Rights Movement through his teachings of nonviolent civil rights tactics.
Bayard Rustin was a brilliant strategist, pacifist, and forward-thinking civil rights activist during the middle of the 20th century.
