Discover the remarkable life of Bayard Rustin, a civil rights leader and co-founder of CORE and SCLC. His contributions to ...

Jerald Podair, Lawrence University (THE CONVERSATION) As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my ... focused on ending the Jim Crow era of racial segregation. Rustin and Randolph worked ...

You can’t tell the story of Dr. King without telling the stories of Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, Kwame Nkrumah, Coretta Scott King, Ella Baker, and so many other people. I think the same ...

The march was the brainchild of longtime civil rights activist and labor leader A. Philip Randolph. With the support of the gifted organizer Bayard Rustin, the march was a collaboration of all ...

Philip Randolph, for bringing it off in less than ... Leading figures in the Civil Rights Movement led the March on Washington. Bayard Rustin, the principal organizer, was not allowed to take ...

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 ...

It was during my deep dive into the life of a man who had become the most famous symbol for social justice that I came across Bayard Rustin, a lesser-known activist than King but critical ...

Born in Crescent City on April 15, 1889, then raised and educated in Jacksonville, Florida Mr. Asa Philip Randolph was the son of an AME Minister and tailor father, and seamstress mother.

In 1963 Bayard Rustin, a political activist is influenced by the speeches, thoughts and actions of Martin Luther King. When given the task of organizing and coordinating a freedom march of around ...

Jerald Podair, Lawrence University (THE CONVERSATION) As I began writing “Bayard Rustin ... the Jim Crow era of racial segregation. Rustin and Randolph worked again in 1948 on a successful ...