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Jun 1, 2018 · Rustin was, once again, ousted from King’s planning process. But after King’s assassination on April 4, 1968, Rustin agreed to fly from Memphis to help lead the campaign in King’s absence.
Nov 20, 2023 · Bayard Rustin was a brilliant strategist, pacifist, and forward-thinking civil rights activist during the middle of the 20th century. In 1947 as a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Rustin planned the "Journey of Reconciliation", which would be used as a model for the Freedom Rides of the 1960's. He served as a mentor to Martin Luther ...
Nov 18, 2023 · Bayard Rustin, organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, poses for a photo on August 1 of that year in New York. He stood 6-foot-1, weighed 190 pounds and moved with the grace of an athlete. A ...
Nov 3, 2023 · Rustin focuses on the months leading up to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, roughly 250,000 people strong, which paved the way for the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Rustin planned the ...
Jan 30, 2023 · He was a civil rights activist, a labor unionist, a socialist, a pacifist and, later in life, a gay rights advocate. Today, scholars would call Rustin an intersectionalist, a man who understood ...
Nov 6, 2023 · Bayard Rustin has emerged of late as a hero almost perfectly tuned to our time. A Black civil-rights leader who was an architect of the 1963 March on Washington, he was also, in an aptly ...
Jan 14, 2024 · NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Colman Domingo, star of the movie "Rustin," about civil rights icon Bayard Rustin's work. Activist Rachelle Horowitz, who helped Rustin organize the 1963 march, joins.
