Bayard Rustin

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• 3/19/2023
  

  When World War II Pacifists "Conquered the Future"

  by Eric Laursen

  Daniel Akst profiles the pacifists who opposed American involvement in the Second World War and their influence on the civil rights and peace movements that followed. 

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• SOURCE: History Matters
  8/29/2022
  

  Overshadowed in His Time, Bayard Rustin's Leadership Speaks to Today's Fights for Justice

  by Jerald Podair

  Rustin was a forward-looking radical who embraced socialist, labor, and racial justice struggles. But homophobia across the color line limited his public influence in the 1960s.

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  5/19/2021
  

  A Vision of Racial and Economic Justice: A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin

  by Norman Hill and Velma Murphy Hill

  "More than a year into a national reckoning over racism, two heroes in the struggle for racial justice have received little national attention. A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin were mentor and student, friends and colleagues—eventually, their relationship was like father and son."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/5/20
  

  Decades after his arrest for having sex with men, a gay civil rights leader is pardoned

  On Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) issued a posthumous pardon for Rustin.

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• SOURCE: Washignton Post
  1/21/20
  

  Arrested for having sex with men, this gay civil rights leader could finally be pardoned in California

  A decade before Bayard Rustin became a chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, the civil rights activist was booked into a Los Angeles County jail on suspicion of “lewd vagrancy.”

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• SOURCE: The North Star
  8/24/19
  

  Bayard Rustin: Prophet Of Freedom, Justice, And Humanity

  by Stephen G. Hall

  Rustin’s work combined a passion for social justice with a firm commitment to LGBTQ and human rights.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/23/19
  

  What Reparations for Slavery Might Look Like in 2019

  If you’re surprised that the issue of reparations for black Americans has taken so long to resolve, blame the president. President Andrew Johnson.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/6/19
  

  In Newly Found Audio, Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin Says Coming Out 'Was An Absolute Necessity'

  The rare tape was provided by Rustin's surviving partner who preserved a library of backup recordings. Those recordings have helped foster a better understanding of the gay icon — one that Marcus concedes was absent from his civil rights education.