Jerald Podair, Lawrence University (THE CONVERSATION) As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues ...
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 ...