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4 days ago · Bayard Rustin was a gay civil rights activist who was particularly passionate about racial equality. He helped to organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, of which Martin Luther King Jr. was a president, and which influenced the civil rights movement.
3 days ago · Thankfully, in 2023, Black women were on the mic for the 60th anniversary of The March, which included Bernice and Yolanda King, the daughter and granddaughter of Martin Luther King, Jr., U.S ...
4 days ago · Bayard Rustin, the underappreciated black 1960s civil rights activist, certainly deserves an ambitious film about his life. After all, the 1963 “March on Washington” that culminated with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech was Rustin’s brainchild.
5 days ago · "Rustin" is a Netflix biopic produced by Barack and Michelle Obama. Bayard Rustin, the underappreciated black 1960s civil rights activist, certainly deserves an ambitious film about his...
5 days ago · These include books such as James Haskins’s Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement (1997) and Delivering Justice: W. W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights (2005), illustrated by Benny Andrews; Eloise Greenfield’s biographies Paul Robeson (1975), illustrated by George Ford, and Mary McLeod Bethune (1977), illustrated by Jerry Pinkney; June Jordan’s Fannie Lou Hamer (1972), illustrated by Albert Williams; and Carole Boston Weatherford’s Voice of Freedom: Fannie ...
3 days ago · Bayard Rustin was a civil rights leader and the chief organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. Bayard Rustin: The decision to have [the March on Washington] was based on the fact that Mr. [A.
5 days ago · Bayard Rustin, the underappreciated black 1960s civil rights activist, certainly deserves an ambitious film about his life. After all, the 1963 “March on Washington” that culminated with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech was Rustin’s brainchild.
