A scholar of medieval Christianity explores the history of Christians who spoke out unafraid to risk official censure or even ...
Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, read their demands of lawmakers ... the great audience he sought to reach than that vision of children someday playing together with not a thought to the color ...
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 Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues ...
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 ...
Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin implemented the Gandhian methods of non-violence and civil disobedience much before Martin Luther King Jr was even aware of their power. But now he remains ...
MEMPHIS (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – The National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Tennessee is proud to announce the acquisition of the extraordinary archive of Bayard Rustin, a pivotal figure in ...