Discover the remarkable life of Bayard Rustin, a civil rights leader and co-founder of CORE and SCLC. His contributions to ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. Now the home of ...

With the support of the gifted organizer Bayard Rustin, the march was a collaboration of all ... On 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American ...

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and ... Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, read their demands of lawmakers to the crowd. Looking over the demands now ...

I say that because of the focus on freedom, the focus on labor rights; these are all important introductions that Bayard Rustin had brought to the lead organizing for the March on Washington.

Most people remember the March on Washington because of King's "I Have ... But if it weren't for organizers like Bayard Rustin, there would not have been 250,000 people present at the Lincoln ...

But it wasn’t easy, because Bayard Rustin was America’s signature radical ... to agree to his selection as the organizer and orchestrator of the March on Washington in 1963. But Rustin’s ability to ...

However, fairness demands that the extent of Rustin's work receive a fair public reception. Bayard Taylor Rustin was born on March 17, 1912, to Florence Rustin, one of eight children of Julia and ...

Bayard Rustin, the march's head organizer ... leaders gathered in New York City on July 2 to plan a civil rights march on Washington. From left: John Lewis, chairman Student Non-Violence ...

Speaking Truth to Power explores Bayard Rustin's innovative use of the ... Artifacts of activism, such as Rustin's notes for a March on Washington for Civil Rights, "Don’t Join Jim Crow Army ...