Civil rights leaders, from left, Bayard Rustin, Jack Greenberg, Whitney M. Young Jr., James Farmer, Roy Wilkins, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph and Courtland Cox ...

It took the direct intervention of Randolph, Rustin’s lifelong friend and champion, to get King and other major civil rights leaders to agree to his selection as the organizer and orchestrator ...

You can’t tell the story of Dr. King without telling the stories of Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, Kwame Nkrumah, Coretta Scott King, Ella Baker, and so many other people.

It came as no surprise since he is the “chief activist” at the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice. “Bayard Rustin is the godfather of intersectionality,” Seda-Schreiber said.

Following passage of the Voting Rights Act, APRI was co-founded in 1968 by A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin. APRI forged an alliance between the civil rights movement and the labor movement.

LEAD: Bayard Rustin, the pacifist and civil rights activist who was a chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington and the 1964 New York school boycott, died early yesterday at Lenox Hill Hospital.

Bayard Rustin isn’t a famous name, at least not as recognized as it should be. He was a prominent civil rights activist, leading American movements in socialist politics, nonviolence, and gay ...