A high-impact exhibition on the civil rights activist—who orchestrated the 1963 March on Washington—opens at the National ...

Rustin was a master strategist of social change who studied the workings of insurgent movements globally to better understand ...

Today, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives adopted a resolution introduced by state Rep. Andre D. Carroll, D-Phila., ...

City Council passed a resolution Thursday to make March 17, 2025 “Bayard Rustin Day" on what would have been the ...

Bayard Rustin, a native of West Chester, was a close advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and played a pivotal role in ...

Mays, president of Morehouse College, theologian Howard Thurman, and Bayard Rustin ... he had in the process of carrying on the protest.” When Rustin visited Montgomery in early 1956 and ...

Although Bayard Rustin was one of the most important leaders of the American civil rights movement from the advent of its modern period in the 1950s until well into the 1980s, his name was seldom ...

While she wasn’t the first person to use a bus sit-in to protest segregation — Bayard Rustin’s is the earliest one I’m aware of — Parks’ arrest was the catalyst for the Montgomery bus ...

WEST GOSHEN — When many of the West Chester Rustin wrestlers made their debut on the mats this season, they were just a week removed from a trip to the state semifinals on the football team.

In 1963 Bayard Rustin, a political activist is influenced by the speeches, thoughts and actions of Martin Luther King. When given the task of organizing and coordinating a freedom march of around ...