His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long ...
While preparing for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I stumbled across Bayard Rustin, a lesser-known activist critical to the ...
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 ...
and we are convinced that Bayard’s expertness and commitment in this area will be of inestimable value.” Seventeen years older than King, Rustin was more of a brother figure unlike the much ...