His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long ...
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 ...
a labor unionist, a socialist, a pacifist and, later in life, a gay rights advocate. Rustin was present at the creation of a host of pivotal American liberation movements. He helped found the ...
a labor unionist, a socialist, a pacifist and, later in life, a gay rights advocate. Advertisement Rustin was present at the creation of a host of pivotal American liberation movements.
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jerald Podair, Lawrence University (THE CONVERSATION) As I began writing “Bayard ...