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Feb 25, 2021 · Bayard Rustin, the deputy director of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, speaks to the crowd of marchers from the Lincoln Memorial. He was the organizer of the march, overseeing the ...
Bayard Rustin died on August 24, 1987, just four days shy of the march’s 24th anniversary. Since then, he has been the subject of several biographies by Jervis Anderson, Daniel Levine, John D ...
Nov 17, 2023 · Rustin: Directed by George C. Wolfe. With Colman Domingo, Aml Ameen, Glynn Turman, Chris Rock. Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.
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Jan 29, 2007 · Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) January 29, 2007 contributed by: Luther Adams. Image courtesy Walter Naegle. Bayard Rustin was one of the most important, and yet least known, Civil Rights advocates in the twentieth century. He was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania on March 17, 1912 and raised by his maternal grandparents.
Mar 8, 2021 · RUSTIN BAYARD: I was an associate of Dr. Martin Luther King's for a number of years. Actually, I am the person who drew up plans for his Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Nov 17, 2023 · Rustin’s fellow leaders “believed that the white press, and they weren’t wrong in this, but definitely J. Edgar Hoover, was going to use the fact that Bayard was a homosexual to discredit ...
Jun 27, 2020 · Bayard Rustin’s “three liabilities”: he was a pacifist, a socialist, and a homosexual. Rustin was a controversial figure inside and outside the movement. Biographer John D’Emilio writes that Rustin has been largely left out of the simple story we tell ourselves about civil rights because of “ three liabilities .”
