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4 big accomplishments of the 1963 March on Washington
Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, read their demands of lawmakers ... March on Washington on their TV sets was James Harris, a high school football star in Monroe, La. When King spoke, "Harris ...
The News-Times6d
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 ...
Daily Local News2d
Iacone, Rustin top Unionville to get leg-up in playoff race
EAST MARLBOROUGH – The West Chester Rustin boys’ basketball squad was trying desperately to hold off a late Unionville comeback Tuesday, and at the time it wasn’t trending well. That’s ...
Indiatimes2d
Is Bayard Rustin the true inheritor of Gandhi’s mantle in the US?
Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin implemented the Gandhian methods of non-violence and civil disobedience much before Martin Luther King Jr was even aware of their power. But now he remains ...