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 ... civil rights history – the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. But it almost did not happen ...
His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long deserved ... role in the march, what he did in the organizing and ...