The News-Times6d
Meet Bayard Rustin, often-forgotten civil rights activist, gay rights advocate, union organizer, pacifist and man of compassion for all in trouble
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 ...
Vallejo Times Herald4d
Bayard Rustin Symposium returns in Vallejo
The Bayard Rustin Symposium is returning to Vallejo this weekend after a year hiatus, this time celebrating local activist Brenda Crawford. Since 2018, Anna Bergman has organized the Bayard Rustin ...
San Diego Union-Tribune12d
Civil rights advisor Bayard Rustin helped inform Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘dream’
His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long deserved a much more respected place in the history of the Civil Rights ...
The Westside Gazette8d
National Civil Rights Museum Announces Major Acquisition Of Bayard Rustin Collection And Opening Of New Exhibition
The National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel is proud to announce the acquisition of the extraordinary archive of ...
Times Union6d
Meet Bayard Rustin, often-forgotten civil rights activist, gay rights advocate, union organizer, pacifist and man of compassion for all in trouble
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 ...
Business Insider17d
NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM ANNOUNCES MAJOR ACQUISITION OF BAYARD RUSTIN COLLECTION AND OPENING OF NEW EXHIBITION
Memphis, TN, Jan. 14, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel is proud to announce the acquisition of the extraordinary archive of Bayard Rustin ...