Today marks the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom ... Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, read their demands of lawmakers to the crowd. Looking over the demands ...
On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered in the nation’s capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom ... With the support of the gifted organizer Bayard Rustin, the march was ...
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 ...
King’s speech is presented only in brief excerpts ... Lead image: Leading figures in the Civil Rights Movement led the March on Washington. Bayard Rustin, the principal organizer, was not ...
West Chester-born Civil Rights leader Bayard Rustin is the architect behind the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther ...
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 ...
Jerald Podair, Lawrence University (THE CONVERSATION) As I began writing “Bayard ... the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. But it almost did not happen. Rustin’s homosexuality ...