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 Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues cautioned ...
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1963 March on Washington
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 ...
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The budgets coming to Congress would bend the moral arc away from justice
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 ...