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Walter Naegle (born 1949) is an American artist and photographer who is the surviving partner of late American Civil Rights leader Bayard Rustin, and the executive director of the Bayard Rustin Fund, which commemorates Rustin's life, values, and legacy.
Nov 17, 2023 · Although civil rights, socialism, non-violence, and LGBTQ+ rights movement activist Bayard Rustin never really hid his true sexual orientation, Netflix’s ‘Rustin’ really brings it into the limelight.
Jun 28, 2015 · Iconic civil rights activist Bayard Rustin and his partner, Walter Naegle, were one such couple. The two men fell in love and were together for many years. And as Bayard was getting older, they...
Oct 19, 2015 · In 1977, 27-year-old Walter Naegle was planning to go to San Francisco. He was living in New York City, which he found awful, when, while waiting for a light to change in Times Square, he...
Nov 18, 2023 · This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Walter Naegle, an artist and photographer who is the surviving partner of Bayard Rustin, the late American Civil Rights leader. The...
Walter Naegle, was Bayard Rustin's life partner for over a decade before his passing. He is one of the first LGBTQ partners to accept a Presidential Medal of Freedom on...
Walter Naegle, a boardmember emeritus of the Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice, became interested in nonviolence and social justice in the 1960s. As a teenager, he was inspired by the Civil Rights Movement. In 1977, he met Bayard Rustin, becoming partners until Rustin's passing.
429Magazine interviews Walter Naegle, who met his long time partner Bayard Rustin in April of 1977. By this point, Rustin had already organized the March on Washington, which occurred in ’63, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech in order to make a stand for peace and unity between black and white communities ...
Feb 25, 2015 · Walter Naegle, Activist Bayard Rustin’s Partner, On Rustin’s Enduring Legacy. Author: Adrian Brooks. February 25, 2015. Bayard Rustin (1912-87) was an African-American Quaker activist who taught Martin Luther King about Gandhi’s non-violent principles and organized the 1963 March on Washington.
Feb 19, 2015 · In celebration of Black History Month, I talked with Walter Naegle, who was pioneer civil rights activist Bayard Rustin's partner for the last decade of Rustin's life.
