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 ...

But it wasn’t easy, because Bayard Rustin was America’s signature radical ... of Reconciliation after his 1953 conviction in Pasadena, California, on what was then known as a “public ...