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Bayard Rustin, the LGBTQ Civil Rights activist and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr., has left a legacy for Black and LGBTQ ...
Social justice advocates are creating a queer history archive that celebrates Bayard Rustin, a major organizer in the Civil ...
This fall, a digital archive will open access to one of the Civil Rights Movement’s most overlooked leaders: Bayard Rustin.
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.
Bayard Rustin, a native of West Chester, was a close advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and played a pivotal role in making nonviolent resistance a foundational principle of the Civil Rights Mov… ...
Bayard Rustin led a long and complicated life dedicated to the fight for equal rights. Targeted by the FBI, Rustin became a close adviser to Martin Luther King Jr.
Insight into Benjamin E. Mays, Howard Thurman, and Bayard Rustin can help develop a better appreciation of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a gathering in the riot-torn area of Los Angeles, Aug. 18, 1965. Bayard Rustin, King’s aide, is at left. Black LGBTQ+ political representation has grown by ...
Before Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech to 250,000 people, a group of civil rights activists spent a summer planning an event many didn’t want to happen.
'Rustin's George C. Wolfe On The Complicated Activist Who Made Possible Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have A Dream Speech' In D.C.
DEADLINE: In making Rustin, the story of how activist Bayard Rustin overcame racism and homophobia and organized the 1963 March on Washington where Dr. Martin Luther King made the speech that ...