Its author was none other than Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader—and later one of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s top confidants. “As I lay in bed for a few last minutes’ rest ...

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Of that which has been written about Dr. Martin ... that Bayard’s expertness and commitment in this area will be of inestimable value.” Seventeen years older than King, Rustin was more of ...

Bayard Rustin' exhibit at National Civil Rights ... and a top associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but his identity as a gay man made him a sometimes controversial figure among other leaders ...

A year after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination ... she met both the singer Paul Robeson and the activist Bayard Rustin, and heard the playwright and activist Shirley Graham (who would ...