Insight into Benjamin E. Mays, Howard Thurman, and Bayard Rustin can help develop a better appreciation of Dr. Martin Luther ...

Bayard Rustin (3/17/1912-8/24/1987 ), who taught King about the strength of nonviolent demonstrations. Having trained in India in these concepts, Rustin kept in the background because he was gay.

At the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis one September day, tourists pause solemnly before a ...

My background didn't give me what I needed to ... listening as King and other national civil rights leaders, like Bayard Rustin, James Bevel, the Rev. James Lawson and Stokely Carmichael, planned ...

With his background in sociology and education policy ... Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin, Pauli Murray, and bell hooks as guiding lights. In recent years, the far right has aimed its ...

Joe Calhoun launched his activism during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike, listening to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders in the Civil Rights Movement.

Martin Luther King III called on those who oppose Trump to stay actively involved in politics, but insisted that civility ...

But another court has held that although an African American customer had to wait longer than white bank customers to cash his check while background checks were ... Phillip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, ...

Joe Calhoun became an activist during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike, helping the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and ...

Joe Calhoun launched his activism during the 1968 sanitation workers strike, listening to Martin Luther King Jr. and other ...