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5 days ago · Bayard Rustin Reflects on the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In this oral history Bayard Rustin offers his opinion about why the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, held on August 28, 1963, was a success. Rustin was an organizer of the march along with many others, including A. Philip Randolph, an African-American labor leader.
2 days ago · Civil rights activist and former AFT Political Director Rachelle Horowitz received the AFT Bayard Rustin Human Rights Award today at the AFT convention in Houston, with Rustin’s partner, Walter Naegle, present. Horowitz started working with Rustin when she was just 17 and said she was humbled to receive the award because she knows “how difficult it is to live up to the ideals of Bayard ...
3 days ago · In the exhibit, visitors can see images of the queer civil rights activists and creatives Baldwin called friends who impacted his life, including activist Bayard Rustin, playwright Lorraine Hansberry and singer Nina Simone.
3 days ago · Description Overview: These anthologies parallel and supplement the OYH school modules, available as Open Education Resources. Groups of all ages can explore & discuss these collections.
2 days ago · Pan-Africanism. Kwame Ture ( / ˈkwɑːmeɪ ˈtʊəreɪ /; born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael; June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998) was an American activist who played a major role in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global pan-African movement. Born in Trinidad in the Caribbean, he grew up in the United States ...
5 days ago · "Keep A'Livin'" includes people like Bayard Rustin, the openly gay advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., who helped create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and fought for gay rights. To quote from the book directly, "'That Bayard Rustin is one of them funny men, ain't he?'" she whispers under her breath.
3 days ago · An Oscar nominee last year for his full-bodied turn as civil rights leader Bayard Rustin in “Rustin,” and star of the very fine new film “Sing Sing,” Domingo could get by, probably, on his ...
