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

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.

Born in Crescent City on April 15, 1889, then raised and educated in Jacksonville, Florida Mr. Asa Philip Randolph was the son of an AME Minister and tailor father, and seamstress mother.

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 ...

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 ...

Great Migrations: A People on The Move is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, ...

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A century ago this year, on Aug. 25, 1925, 500 Pullman Co. railroad porters secretly gathered in New York City’s Harlem for a ...

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 ...