Bayard Rustin's recent visit to Harvard as an Honorary ... From singing with Leadbelly in the '30's to protest movements in America, England, South Africa and India -- not to mention two marches ...

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 ...

The march was the brainchild of longtime civil rights activist and labor leader A. Philip Randolph. With the support of the gifted organizer Bayard Rustin, the march was a collaboration of all ...

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 ...