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The Rustin Fund for Global Equality was created in 2015 to honor the legacy of Bayard Rustin, a black, openly gay American civil rights activist. Rustin is best known for his role organizing the March on Washington, in 1963, with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Rustin’s later work included a heavy focus on refugee affairs.…
1 de jun. de 2018 · He was Bayard Rustin, a man whose life was shaped by the very prejudices the movement fought against, not only because of his race, but also because he was gay. Rustin would spend his life ...
21 de nov. de 2023 · John D’Emilio, author of Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin, says: “The 1940s and 1950s and 1960s can be reasonably described as the most openly homophobic in US history, where ...
18 de nov. de 2023 · Bayard Rustin, organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, poses for a photo on August 1 of that year in New York. He stood 6-foot-1, weighed 190 pounds and moved with the grace of an athlete. A ...
30 de ene. de 2023 · Bayard Rustin, at right, sits next to acclaimed writer James Baldwin on the speakers’ platform in Montgomery, Ala., during the 1965 civil rights march from Selma. Stephen F. Somerstein/Getty Images
20 de nov. de 2023 · Bayard Rustin. Bayard Rustin was a brilliant strategist, pacifist, and forward-thinking civil rights activist during the middle of the 20th century. In 1947 as a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, Rustin planned the "Journey of Reconciliation", which would be used as a model for the Freedom Rides of the 1960's.
Bayard Rustin served the trade union and civil rights movements as a brilliant theorist, tactician and organizer. He conceived the coalition of liberal, labor and religious leaders who supported passage of the civil rights and anti-poverty legislation of the 1960s and, as the first executive director of the AFL-CIO's A. Philip Randolph Institute, he worked closely with the labor movement to ...
