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 ...

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 ...

With the support of the gifted organizer Bayard Rustin, the march was a collaboration of all factions ... and press for a new federal jobs program and a higher minimum wage, the goals of the march ...

Bayard Rustin As we simultaneously remembered Martin ... then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.” (Bridget Moix is general secretary of the Friends Committee on ...

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 ...

Rustin had two chances in the final minute to slice the deficit and couldn’t get off a shot. First, with 1:04 to go, they collected a steal but turned the ball back over on a travel.

As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues cautioned me not to “fall in love.” This, of course, is good ...