Obama has previously said of Rustin: "This is someone who was courageous ... But hopefully it's not really for me, it's for Bayard, it's for all of my fellow creators, for Barack and Michelle ...

Rustin and Randolph worked again in 1948 on a successful campaign to end segregation in the U.S. military under President Harry Truman. A pacifist, Rustin protested World War II by resisting the draft ...

It tells the story of Bayard Rustin, an openly gay Black man in a ... I have a copy of Michelle Obama’s memoir, Becoming, in ...

and we are convinced that Bayard’s expertness and commitment in this area will be of inestimable value.” Seventeen years older than King, Rustin was more of a brother figure unlike the much ...

His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long deserved a much more respected place in the history of the Civil Rights ...

EXCLUSIVE: Higher Ground, the media company started by President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama ... of civil rights and gay rights activist Bayard Rustin, earned Oscar, BAFTA and SAG award ...

The Bayard Rustin Symposium is returning to Vallejo this weekend after a year hiatus, this time celebrating local activist Brenda Crawford. Since 2018, Anna Bergman has organized the Bayard Rustin ...

Memphis, TN, Jan. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel is proud to announce the acquisition of the extraordinary archive of Bayard Rustin ...

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 ...

Jerald Podair, Lawrence University (THE CONVERSATION) As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues ...