Bayard Rustin
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 37 years ago |
Date of birth | March 17,1912 |
Zodiac sign | Pisces |
Born | West Chester |
Pennsylvania | |
United States | |
Date of died | August 24,1987 |
Died | New York |
New York | |
United States | |
Partner(s) | Davis Platt |
Walter Naegle | |
Parents | Florence Rustin |
Archie Hopkins | |
Job | Activist |
Education | B. Reed Henderson High School |
Wilberforce University Fcu | |
The City College of New York | |
Cheyney University Of Pennsylvania | |
Cheyney University | |
Wilberforce University | |
Movement | Civil Rights Movement |
Gay Rights | |
Neoconservatism | |
Awards | Presidential Medal of Freedom |
Movies/Shows | The March |
Bayard & Me | |
Malcolm X | |
Books | Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin |
I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters | |
Strategies for Freedom: The Changing Patterns of Black Protest | |
Voices of Christ: Reflections on Applied Christianity | |
Influences | W. E. B. Du Bois |
Mahatma Gandhi | |
James Weldon Johnson | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 446362 |
Bayard Rustin Life story
Bayard Rustin was an African American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. Rustin worked with A. Philip Randolph on the March on Washington Movement, in 1941, to press for an end to racial discrimination in employment.