American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues cautioned me not to “fall in love.” This, of course, is good advice for any biographer, and I ...

Although Bayard Rustin was one of the most important leaders of the American civil rights movement from the advent of its modern period in the 1950s until well into the 1980s, his name was seldom ...

But it wasn’t easy, because Bayard Rustin was America’s signature radical ... of Reconciliation after his 1953 conviction in Pasadena, California, on what was then known as a “public ...