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

“Bayard Rustin was a civil rights organizer in ... was excluded from the stories about the movement for so long. Martin Luther King Jr. was advised to cut ties with Rustin for that very reason ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. Now the home of ...

Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin implemented the Gandhian methods of non-violence and civil disobedience much before Martin ...

Of that which has been written about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., very little has focused ... Thurman, Mays and Rustin encouraged King to study Mahatma Gandhi and see the intellectual and spiritual ...

Rustin and Randolph worked again in 1948 on a successful campaign to end segregation in the U.S. military under President Harry Truman. A pacifist, Rustin protested World War II by resisting the draft ...

I'm preparing for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday by reading books ... famous symbol for social justice that I came across Bayard Rustin, a lesser-known activist than King but critical ...

It was Martin Luther King Jr. who had the dream ... John Lewis, Fannie Lou Hamer, Bayard Rustin and many others — throwing down the gauntlet. But who would stand with King? Who would rise to the ...

But it wasn’t easy, because Bayard Rustin was America’s signature radical voice during the 20th century, and yes, I believe those voices includes that of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., whom ...