The News-Times5d
Meet Bayard Rustin, often-forgotten civil rights activist, gay rights advocate, union organizer, pacifist and man of compassion for all in trouble
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 ...
Civil rights advisor Bayard Rustin helped inform Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘dream’
His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long ...
Trump order recognizes only two sexes. Advocates call it 'cruel,' 'lawless.'
Trump's Inauguration Day executive order declared there are just two sexes. Now, 170 groups say that endangers transgender, ...
Faith column: Remembering Bayard Rustin in the fight for civil rights
While preparing for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I stumbled across Bayard Rustin, a lesser-known activist critical to the ...
Vallejo Times Herald2d
Bayard Rustin Symposium returns in Vallejo
The Bayard Rustin Symposium is returning to Vallejo this weekend after a year hiatus, this time celebrating local activist Brenda Crawford. Since 2018, Anna Bergman has organized the Bayard Rustin ...
SFGate6d
Meet Bayard Rustin, often-forgotten civil rights activist, gay rights advocate, union organizer, pacifist and man of compassion for all in trouble
Jerald Podair, Lawrence University (THE CONVERSATION) As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues ...