Caption: Bayard Rustin, half-length portrait, facing front, microphones in foreground Credit: Library of Congress Sixty-two years ago, a quarter of a million people gathered for the March on ...

Bayard Rustin developed his philosophy of non-violence through his study of Gandhi and Quaker religious beliefs. When he met Martin Luther King Jr., he brought that philosophy to the Civil Rights ...

What made the rights activist Bayard Rustin, who among many other things organized the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a compelling political figure? David Stein describes Rustin’s ...

Over the course of a 75-year life that ended in 1987, Bayard Rustin had been a member — by choice or by circumstance — of more disfavored societal groups than the average ego is capable of keeping ...