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Meet Bayard Rustin, often-forgotten civil rights activist, gay rights advocate, union organizer, pacifist and man of compassion for all in trouble
Jerald Podair, Lawrence University (THE CONVERSATION) As I began writing “Bayard ... civil rights history – the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. But it almost did not happen ...
Meet Bayard Rustin, often-forgotten civil rights activist, gay rights advocate, union organizer, pacifist and man of compassion for all in trouble
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 ...