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Forgotten openly gay activist spearheaded the historic 1963 March on Washington, which had an estimated 250,000 attendees.
The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis highlights Bayard Rustin's pivotal role in the civil rights movement with a new ...
Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil Rights Movement and key architect of the March on Washington.
A new digital archive honoring Bayard Rustin is set to launch this fall, according to the Associated Press. The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice has announced the creation of ...
Bayard Rustin was one of the most consequential architects of the civil rights movement in the '60s you may have never heard of. NPR's podcast Throughline has this profile.
Bayard Rustin essentially wrote the blueprint for Black liberation in this country, and subsequent liberation movements across the globe. Unfortunately, Bayard’s life represents history’s ...
– Bayard Rustin, Organizing Manual No. 2, March on Washington, 1963 It is this lesson and its impact on LGBT people of color that we explore here.
He has technique to burn, but in Netflix’s docudrama about civil rights activist and March on Washington organizer Bayard Rustin, many key scenes are small ones, with one or two other actors.
Rustin would have turned 100 this March. Walter Naegle says now might be the time to push the March on Washington leader’s story to the forefront of American consciousness.
Obama saluted Bayard Rustin, the fearless architect of 1963’s March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, who “recognized injustice and stood up against it.” ...
Rustin, in the film, often is smiling – or suppressing a smile – as ideas form in his head. “I did 19 hours of interviews with people who knew Bayard,” said Breece.
The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice will launch a digital archive this fall featuring articles, photos, videos, telegrams, speeches and more tied to Rustin's work.