Although Bayard Rustin was one of the most important leaders of the American civil rights movement from the advent of its modern period in the 1950s until well into the 1980s, his name was seldom ...

It was during my deep dive into the life of a man who had become the most famous symbol for social justice that I came across Bayard Rustin, a lesser-known activist than King but critical ...

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 ...