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Bayard Rustin
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Rustin at a news briefing on the Civil Rights March on Washington, August 27, 1963

Born
March 17, 1912
West Chester, Pennsylvania
Died
August 24, 1987 (aged 75)
Manhattan, New York
Organization
Fellowship of Reconciliation, Congress of Racial Equality, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Social Democrats, USA (National Chairman), A. Philip Randolph Institute (President)
Political movement
African-American Civil Rights Movement, Peace Movement, Socialism, Gay Rights Movement
Religion
Quaker
Awards
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Bayard Rustin (/ˈbaɪərd/; March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, pacifism and non-violence, and gay rights. He was born and raised in Pennsylvania where his family was involved in civil rights work. In 1936, he moved to Harlem, New York City and earned a living as a nightclub and stage singer, and continued activism for civil rights.
In the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), Rustin practiced nonviolence. He was a leading activist of the early 1947–1955 civil-rights movement, helping to initiate a 1947 Freedom Ride to challenge with civil disobedience racial segregation on interstate busing. He recognized Martin Luther King, Jr.'s leadership, and helped to organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to strengthen King's leadership; Rustin promoted the philosophy of nonviolence and the practices of nonviolent resistance, which he had observed while working with Gandhi's movement in India. Rustin became a leading strategist of the civil rights movement from 1955 to 1968. He was the chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which was headed by A. Philip Randolph, the leading African-American labor-union president and socialist.[1][2] Rustin also influenced young activists, such as Tom Kahn and Stokely Carmichael, in organizations like the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
After the passage of the civil-rights legislation of 1964–65, Rustin focused attention on the economic problems of working-class and unemployed African Americans, suggesting that the civil-rights movement had left its period of "protest" and had entered an era of "politics", in which the Black community had to ally with the labor movement. Rustin became the head of the AFL–CIO's A. Philip Randolph Institute, which promoted the integration of formerly all-white unions and promoted the unionization of African Americans. Rustin became an honorary chairperson of the Socialist Party of America in 1972, before it changed its name to Social Democrats, USA (SDUSA); Rustin acted as national chairman of SDUSA during the 1970s. During the 1970s and 1980s, Rustin served on many humanitarian missions, such as aiding refugees from Communist Vietnam and Cambodia. He was on a humanitarian mission in Haiti when he died in 1987.
Rustin was a gay man who had been arrested for a homosexual act in 1953. Homosexuality was criminalized in parts of the United States until 2003 and stigmatized through the 1990s. Rustin's sexuality, or at least his embarrassingly public criminal charge, was criticized by some fellow pacifists and civil-rights leaders. Rustin was attacked as a "pervert" or "immoral influence" by political opponents from segregationists to Black power militants, and from the 1950s through the 1970s. In addition, his pre-1941 Communist Party affiliation when he was a young man was controversial. To avoid such attacks, Rustin served only rarely as a public spokesperson. He usually acted as an influential adviser to civil-rights leaders. In the 1970s, he became a public advocate on behalf of gay and lesbian causes.
In August 2013, President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Contents
  [hide] 1 Early life
2 Evolving affiliations
3 Influence on the Civil Rights Movement 3.1 March on Washington
3.2 From Protest to politics 3.2.1 Influence on William Julius Wilson
3.3 Labor movement: Unions and social democracy
3.4 Foreign policy
3.5 Human rights: Gay rights
4 Death and beliefs
5 Legacy
6 Publications
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Early life[edit]
Rustin was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania. He was raised by his maternal grandparents, Janifer and Julia Rustin. Julia Rustin was a Quaker, although she attended her husband's African Methodist Episcopal Church. She was also a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). NAACP leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois and James Weldon Johnson were frequent guests in the Rustin home. With these influences in his early life, in his youth Rustin campaigned against racially discriminatory Jim Crow laws.[3]
In 1932, Rustin entered Wilberforce University, a historically black college (HBCU) in Ohio operated by the AME Church. As a student at Wilberforce, Rustin was active in a number of campus organizations, including the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. He left Wilberforce in 1936 before taking his final exams, and later attended Cheyney State Teachers College (now Cheyney University of Pennsylvania).
After completing an activist training program conducted by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Rustin moved to Harlem in 1937 and began studying at City College of New York. There he became involved in efforts to defend and free the Scottsboro Boys, nine young black men in Alabama who were accused of raping two white women. He joined the Young Communist League in 1936. Soon after coming to New York City, he became a member of Fifteenth Street Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
Rustin was an accomplished tenor vocalist, an asset which earned him admissions to both Wilberforce University and Cheyney State Teachers College with music scholarships.[4] In 1939, he was in the chorus of a short-lived musical that starred Paul Robeson. Blues singer Josh White was also a cast member, and later invited Rustin to join his band, "Josh White and the Carolinians". This gave Rustin the opportunity to become a regular performer at the Café Society nightclub in Greenwich Village, widening his social and intellectual contacts.[5] A few albums on Fellowship Records featuring his singing were produced from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Evolving affiliations[edit]
Following directions from the Soviet Union, the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and its members were active in the civil rights movement for African Americans.[6] Following Stalin's "theory of nationalism", the CPUSA once favored the creation of a separate "nation" for negroes, to be located in the American Southeast.[7] In 1941, after Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin ordered the CPUSA to abandon civil rights work and focus supporting U.S. entry into World War II. Disillusioned, Rustin began working with members of the Socialist Party of Norman Thomas, particularly, A. Philip Randolph, the head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; another socialist mentor was the pacifist A. J. Muste, leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR).
The three of them proposed a march on Washington to protest racial discrimination in the armed forces. Meeting with President Roosevelt in the Oval Office, Randolph respectfully and politely, but firmly, told President Roosevelt that Negroes would march in the capital unless desegregation occurred. To prove their good faith, the organizers canceled the planned march after Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802 (the Fair Employment Act), which banned discrimination in defense industries and federal agencies.
Rustin traveled to California to help protect the property of Japanese Americans who had been imprisoned in internment camps. Impressed with Rustin's organizational skills, Muste appointed him as FOR's secretary for student and general affairs.
Rustin was also a pioneer in the movement to desegregate interstate bus travel. In 1942, he boarded a bus in Louisville, bound for Nashville, and sat in the second row. A number of drivers asked him to move to the back, but Rustin refused. The bus was stopped by police 13 miles north of Nashville and Rustin was arrested. He was beaten and taken to the police station, but was released uncharged.[8]
In 1942, Rustin assisted two other staffers, George Houser and James L. Farmer, Jr., and activist Bernice Fisher as they formed the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). Rustin was not a direct founder, but was "an uncle of CORE," Farmer and Houser said later. CORE was conceived as a pacifist organization based on the writings of Henry David Thoreau. It was modeled after Mohandas Gandhi's non-violent resistance against British rule in India.
As declared pacifists who refused induction into the military, Rustin, Houser, and other members of FOR and CORE were convicted of violating the Selective Service Act. From 1944 to 1946, Rustin was imprisoned in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, where he organized protests against segregated dining facilities. During his incarceration, Rustin also organized FOR's Free India Committee. After his release from prison, he was frequently arrested for protesting against British colonial rule in India and Africa.
Just before a trip to Africa while college secretary of the FOR, Rustin recorded a 10-inch LP for the Fellowship Records label. He sang spirituals and Elizabethan songs, accompanied on the harpsichord by Margaret Davison.[9]
Influence on the Civil Rights Movement[edit]
Further information: African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)
Rustin and Houser organized the Journey of Reconciliation in 1947. This was the first of the Freedom Rides to test the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States that banned racial discrimination in interstate travel (Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia). Rustin and CORE executive secretary George Houser recruited a team of fourteen men, divided equally by race, to ride in pairs through Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky.[10] The NAACP opposed CORE's Gandhian tactics as too meek. Participants in the Journey of Reconciliation were arrested several times. Arrested with Jewish activist Igal Roodenko, Rustin served twenty-two days on a chain gang in North Carolina for violating Jim Crow laws regarding segregated seating on public transportation.[11]
In 1948, Rustin traveled to India to learn techniques of nonviolent civil resistance directly from the leaders of the Gandhian movement. The conference had been organized before Gandhi's assassination earlier that year. Between 1947 and 1952, Rustin met with leaders of Ghana's and Nigeria's independence movements.
In 1951, he formed the Committee to Support South African Resistance, which later became the American Committee on Africa.
Rustin was arrested in Pasadena, California, in 1953 for homosexual activity with two other men in a parked car. Originally charged with vagrancy and lewd conduct, he pleaded guilty to a single, lesser charge of "sex perversion" (as consensual sodomy was officially referred to in California then) and served 60 days in jail. This was the first time that his homosexuality had come to public attention. He had been and remained candid about his sexuality, although homosexuality was still criminalized throughout the United States. After his conviction, he was fired from FOR. He became the executive secretary of the War Resisters League.
Rustin served as an unidentified member of the American Friends Service Committee's task force to write "Speak Truth to Power: A Quaker Search for an Alternative to Violence,"[12] published in 1955. This was one of the most influential and widely commented upon pacifist essays in the United States. Rustin had wanted to keep his participation quiet, as he believed that his known sexual orientation would be used by critics as an excuse to compromise the 71-page pamphlet when it was published. It analyzed the Cold War and the American response to it, and recommended non-violent solutions.
Rustin took leave from the War Resisters League in 1956 to advise Martin Luther King Jr. on Gandhian tactics. King was organizing the public transportation boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, known as the Montgomery Bus Boycott. According to Rustin, "I think it's fair to say that Dr. King's view of non-violent tactics was almost non-existent when the boycott began. In other words, Dr. King was permitting himself and his children and his home to be protected by guns." Rustin convinced King to abandon the armed protection, including a personal handgun.[13]
The following year, Rustin and King began organizing the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Many African-American leaders were concerned that Rustin's sexual orientation and past Communist membership would undermine support for the civil rights movement. U.S. Representative Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., who was a member of the SCLC's board, forced Rustin's resignation from the SCLC in 1960 by threatening to discuss Rustin's morals charge in Congress.[14] Although Rustin was open about his sexual orientation and his conviction was a matter of public record, the events had not been discussed widely outside the civil rights leadership.
March on Washington[edit]



 Rustin and Cleveland Robinson of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 7, 1963
Despite shunning from some civil rights leaders,

[w]hen the moment came for an unprecedented mass gathering in Washington, Randolph pushed Rustin forward as the logical choice to organize it.[15]
A few weeks before the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 1963, Senator Strom Thurmond railed against Rustin as a "Communist, draft-dodger, and homosexual," and had the entire Pasadena arrest file entered in the record.[15] Thurmond also produced an FBI photograph of Rustin talking to King while King was bathing, to imply that there was a same-sex relationship between the two. Both men denied the allegation of an affair.
Rustin was instrumental in organizing the march. He drilled off-duty police officers as marshals, bus captains to direct traffic, and scheduled the podium speakers. Eleanor Holmes Norton and Rachelle Horowitz were aides.[15]
Despite King's support, NAACP chairman Roy Wilkins did not want Rustin to receive any public credit for his role in planning the march. Nevertheless, he did become well known. On September 6, 1963, Rustin and Randolph appeared on the cover of Life magazine as "the leaders" of the March.[16]
After the March on Washington, Rustin organized the New York City School Boycott. When Rustin was invited to speak at the University of Virginia in 1964, school administrators tried to ban him, out of fear that he would organize another school boycott there.
From Protest to politics[edit]



 Rustin, 1965
After passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act, Rustin advocated closer ties between the civil rights movement and the Democratic Party and its base among the working class.
With Tom Kahn, Rustin wrote an influential article called "From protest to politics" that analyzed the changing economy and its implications for African Americans. Rustin wrote that the rise of automation would reduce the demand for low-skill high-paying jobs, which would jeopardize the position of the urban Negro working class, particularly in northern states.
The needs of the African-American community demanded a shift in political strategy, where the blacks would need to strengthen their political alliance with mostly white unions and other organizations (churches, synagogues, etc.) to pursue a common economic agenda. It was time to move from protest to politics, wrote Rustin.
A particular danger facing the African-American community was the chimera of identity politics, particularly the rise of "Black power" which Rustin dismissed as a fantasy of middle-class black people that repeated the political and moral errors of previous black nationalists, while alienating the white allies needed by the African-American community.[17] Rustin's analysis of the economic problems of the Black community was widely influential.
Influence on William Julius Wilson[edit]
See also: William Julius Wilson
Rustin's analysis was supported by later research by William Julius Wilson. Wilson documented an increase in inequality within the Black community, following educated Blacks moving into white suburbs and following the decrease of demand for low-skill labor as industry declined in the Northern USA. Such economic problems were not being addressed by a civil rights leadership focused on "affirmative action", a policy benefiting the truly advantaged within the Black community. Wilson's criticism of the neglect of working-class and poor African Americans by civil rights organizations led to his being mistaken for a conservative, despite his having identified himself as a Rustin style social democrat. Wilson has served on the advisory board of Social Democrats, USA.[18]
Labor movement: Unions and social democracy[edit]
Rustin increasingly worked to strengthen the labor movement, which he saw as the champion of empowerment for the Negro community and for economic justice for all Americans. He contributed to the labor movement's two sides, economic and political, through support of labor unions and social-democratic politics.
He was the founder and became the Director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute, which coordinated the AFL-CIO's work on civil rights and economic justice. He became a regular columnist for the AFL-CIO newspaper.
On the political side of the labor movement, Rustin increased his visibility as a leader of the American social democracy. He became a national co-chairman of the Socialist Party of America in early 1972. In December 1972, when the Socialist Party changed its name to Social Democrats, USA (SDUSA) by a vote of 73–34, Rustin continued to serve as national co-chairman, along with Charles S. Zimmerman of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU).[19] In his opening speech to the December 1972 Convention, Co-Chairman Rustin called for SDUSA to organize against the "reactionary policies of the Nixon Administration"; Rustin also criticized the "irresponsibility and élitism of the 'New Politics' liberals".[19] In later years, Rustin served at the national chairman of SDUSA.
Foreign policy[edit]
Like many liberals and socialists, Rustin supported President Lyndon Johnson's containment policy against communism, while making criticisms of the conduct of this policy. In particular, to maintain independent labor unions and political opposition in Vietnam, Rustin and others gave critical support to U.S. military intervention in Vietnam, while calling for a negotiated peace treaty and democratic elections. Rustin criticized the specific conduct of the war, though. For instance, in a fundraising letter sent to War Resisters League supporters in 1964, Rustin wrote of being "angered and humiliated by the kind of war being waged, a war of torture, a war in which civilians are being machine gunned from the air, and in which American napalm bombs are being dropped on the villages."[20]
The plight of Jews in the Soviet Union reminded Rustin of the struggles that blacks faced in the United States. Soviet Jews faced many of the same forms of discrimination in employment, education and housing, while also being prisoners within their own country by being denied the chance to emigrate by Soviet authorities.[21] After seeing the injustice that Soviet Jews faced, Rustin became a leading voice in advocating for the movement of Jews from the Soviet Union to Israel. He worked closely with Senator Henry Jackson of Washington, who introduced legislation that tied trade relations with the Soviet Union to their treatment of Jews.[22]
Rustin maintained his strongly anti-Soviet views later in his life, especially with regard to Africa. Rustin co-wrote, with future Reagan appointee Carl Gershman, an essay entitled "Africa, Soviet Imperialism & the Retreat of American Power," in which he decried Russian and Cuban involvement in the Angolan Civil War and defended the military intervention by apartheid South Africa on behalf of the FNLA and UNITA. "And if a South African force did intervene at the urging of black leaders and on the side of the forces that clearly represent the black majority in Angola, to counter a non-African army of Cubans ten times its size, by what standard of political judgment is this immoral?" Rustin accused the Soviet Union of a classic imperialist agenda in Africa in pursuit of economic resources and vital sea lanes, and called the Carter Administration "hypocritical" for claiming to be committed to the welfare of blacks while doing too little to thwart Russian and Cuban expansion throughout Africa.[23]
Human rights: Gay rights[edit]
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Rustin worked as a human rights and election monitor for Freedom House.[24] He also testified on behalf of New York State's Gay Rights Bill. In 1986, he gave a speech "The New Niggers Are Gays," in which he asserted,

Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help to protect them from racial discrimination. The new "niggers" are gays. . . . It is in this sense that gay people are the new barometer for social change. . . . The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind: gay people.[25]
Death and beliefs[edit]
Rustin died on August 24, 1987, of a perforated appendix. An obituary in the New York Times reported, "Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: 'The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.'"[26]
Mr. Rustin was survived by Walter Naegle, his partner of ten years.[27][28]



 Rustin speaks with civil rights activists before a demonstration, 1964
Legacy[edit]
Despite the fact that he played such an important role in the civil rights movement, Rustin "faded from the shortlist of well-known civil rights lions," in large part because of public discomfort with his sexual orientation.[15] However, the 2003 documentary film Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, a Sundance Festival Grand Jury Prize nominee,[29] and the March 2012 centennial of Rustin's birth have contributed to some renewed recognition.
According to Daniel Richman, former clerk for United States Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall, Marshall's friendship with Rustin and Rustin's openness about his homosexuality played a significant role in Marshall's dissent from the court's 5–4 decision upholding the constitutionality of state sodomy laws in the later overturned 1986 case Bowers v. Hardwick.[30]
Several buildings have been named in honor of Rustin, including the Bayard Rustin Educational Complex located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan;[31] Bayard Rustin High School in his hometown of West Chester, Pennsylvania; Bayard Rustin Library at the Affirmations Gay/Lesbian Community Center in Ferndale, Michigan; the Bayard Rustin Social Justice Center in Conway, Arkansas. In July 2007, with the permission of the Estate of Bayard Rustin, a group of San Francisco Bay Area African-American LGBT community leaders officially formed the Bayard Rustin LGBT Coalition (BRC), to promote greater participation in the electoral process, advance civil and human rights issues, and promote the legacy of Mr. Rustin. In addition, the Bayard Rustin Center for LGBTQA Activism, Awareness and Reconciliation is located at Guilford College, a Quaker school.[32] Formerly the Queer and Allied Resource Center, the center was rededicated in March 2011 with the permission of the Estate of Bayard Rustin and featured a keynote address by social justice activist Mandy Carter.[33]
A biographical feature movie of Bayard Rustin was entitled Out of the Past.[34] A Pennsylvania State Historical Marker is placed at Lincoln and Montgomery Avenues, West Chester, Pennsylvania; the marker commemorating his accomplishments lies on the grounds of Henderson High School, which he attended.[35]
Rustin was posthumously awarded honorary membership into Delta Phi Upsilon, a fraternity for gay, bisexual and progressive men. On August 8, 2013, President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The citation in the press release stated:
Bayard Rustin was an unyielding activist for civil rights, dignity, and equality for all. An advisor to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., he promoted nonviolent resistance, participated in one of the first Freedom Rides, organized the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and fought tirelessly for marginalized communities at home and abroad. As an openly gay African American, Mr. Rustin stood at the intersection of several of the fights for equal rights.[36]
Publications[edit]
Interracial primer New York, N.Y.: Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1943
Interracial workshop: progress report New York, N.Y.: Sponsored by Congress of Racial Equality and Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1947
Journey of reconciliation: report New York : Fellowship of Reconciliation, Congress of Racial Equality, 1947
We challenged Jim Crow! a report on the journey of reconciliation, April 9–23, 1947 New York : Fellowship of Reconciliation, Congress of Racial Equality, 1947
"In apprehension how like a god!" Philadelphia: Young Friends Movement 1948
The revolution in the South" Cambridge, Mass. : Peace Education Section, American Friends Service Committee, 1950s
Report on Montgomery, Alabama New York: War Resisters League, 1956
A report and action suggestions on non-violence in the South New York: War Resisters League, 1957
Civil rights: the true frontier New York, N.Y.: Donald Press, 1963
From protest to politics: the future of the civil rights movement New York: League for Industrial Democracy, 1965
The city in crisis (introduction) New York: A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund, 1965
"Black power" and coalition politics New York, American Jewish Committee 1966
Which way? (with Daniel Patrick Moynihan) New York : American Press, 1966
The Watts "Manifesto" & the McCone report. New York, League for Industrial Democracy 1966
Fear, frustration, backlash: the new crisis in civil rights New York, Jewish Labor Committee 1966
The lessons of the long hot summer New York, American Jewish Committee 1967
The Negro community: frustration politics, sociology and economics Detroit : UAW Citizenship-Legislative Department, 1967
A way out of the exploding ghetto New York: League for Industrial Democracy, 1967
The alienated: the young rebels today and why they're different Washington, D.C. : International Labor Press Association, 1967
"Right to work" laws; a trap for America's minorities. New York: A. Phillip Randolph Institute 1967
Civil rights: the movement re-examined (contributor) New York,A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund, 1967
Separatism or integration, which way for America?: a dialogue (with Robert Browne) New York,A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund, 1968
The Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, an analysis New York, American Jewish Committee 1968
The labor-Negro coalition, a new beginning Washington? D.C. : American Federationist?, 1968
The anatomy of frustration New York, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, 1968
Morals concerning minorities, mental health and identity. New York, A. Philip Randolph Institute, 1969
Black studies: myths & realities (contributor) New York, A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund, 1969
Conflict or coalition?: the civil rights struggle and the trade union movement today New York, A. Philip Randolph Institute, 1969
Three essays New York, A. Philip Randolph Institute, 1969
Black rage, White fear: the full employment answer : an address Washington, D.C. : Bricklayers, Masons & Plasterers International Union 1970
A word to black students New York, A. Philip Randolph Institute, 1970
The failure of black separatism New York, A. Philip Randolph Institute, 1970
The blacks and the unions (contributor) New York, A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund, 1971
Down the line; the collected writings of Bayard Rustin Chicago Quadrangle Books 1971
Affirmative action in an economy of scarcity (with Norman Hill) New York, A. Philip Randolph Institute, 1974
Seniority and racial progress (with Norman Hill) New York, A. Philip Randolph Institute, 1975
Have we reached the end of the second reconstruction? Bloomington, Ind. : The Poynter Center, 1976
Strategies for freedom: the changing patterns of Black protest New York, Columbia University Press 1976
Africa, Soviet imperialism and the retreat of American power New York, Social Democrats, USA, 1978
South Africa: is peaceful change possible? a report (contributor) New York, New York Friends Group, 1984
Time on two crosses: the collected writings of Bayard Rustin San Francisco : Cleis Press, 2003
I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters (City Lights, 2012)
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References[edit]
Notes
1.Jump up ^ Lerone Bennett Jr. (November 1963). "Masses were March Heroes". Ebony: 35. ISSN 0012-9011. Retrieved 2010-09-19. "Chief of Staff of mammoth operation, Bayard Rustin, (with cigarette), presides at news conference" Available via books.google.com with Advanced Search issn:0012-9011 date Nov 1963
2.Jump up ^ De Leon, David (1994). Leaders from the 1960s: a biographical sourcebook of American activism, Greenwood Publishing Group, p. 138. ISBN 0-313-27414-2.
3.Jump up ^ Spartacus Educational: Bayard Rustin Biography Biographical sketch at www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk, 12/5/2010.
4.Jump up ^ D’Emilio 2003, pp. 21, 24.
5.Jump up ^ D’Emilio 2003, pp. 31–2.
6.Jump up ^ Kazin, Michael (August 21, 2011). The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History. Princeton University Press. p. 112. ISBN 978-1-4008-3946-9. Retrieved November 6, 2011.
7.Jump up ^ August Meier and Elliot Rudwick. Black Detroit and the Rise of the UAW.
8.Jump up ^ Rustin, Bayard (July 1942). "Non-Violence vs. Jim Crow". Fellowship. reprinted in Carson, Clayborne; Garrow, David J.; Kovach, Bill (2003). Reporting Civil Rights: American journalism, 1941–1963. Library of America. pp. 15–18. Retrieved September 13, 2011.
9.Jump up ^ from liner notes, Fellowship Records 102
10.Jump up ^ Podair 2009, pp 27
11.Jump up ^ Peck, James (September 1947). "Not So Deep Are the Roots". The Crisis. reprinted in Carson, Clayborne; Garrow, David J.; Kovach, Bill (2003). Reporting Civil Rights: American journalism, 1941–1963. Library of America. pp. 92–97. Retrieved September 13, 2011.
12.Jump up ^ Available online from AFSC
13.Jump up ^ Bayard Rustin – Who Is This Man, State of the Reunion, radio show, aired February, 2011 on NPR, 1:40–2:10. Retrieved March 16, 2011.
14.Jump up ^ Lewis 1978, p. 131.
15.^ Jump up to: a b c d Hendrix, Steve (August 21, 2011). "Bayard Rustin, organizer of the March on Washington, was crucial to the movement". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 22, 2011.
16.Jump up ^ LIFE Magazine, September 6, 1963.
17.Jump up ^ Staughton Lynd, another civil rights activist, responded with an article entitled, "Coalition Politics or Nonviolent Revolution?"
18.Jump up ^ Wilson's The Declining Significance of Race won the American Sociological Association's Sydney Spivack Award. In The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions (1978) Wilson argues that the significance of race is waning, and an African-American's class is comparatively more important in determining his or her life chances. His The Truly Disadvantaged, which was selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review as one of the 16 best books of 1987, and received The Washington Monthly Annual Book Award and the Society for the Study of Social Problems' C. Wright Mills Award. In The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy (1987), Wilson was one of the first to enunciate at length the "spatial mismatch" theory for the development of a ghetto underclass. As industrial jobs disappeared in cities in the wake of global economic restructuring, and hence urban unemployment increased, women found it unwise to marry the fathers of their children, since the fathers would not be breadwinners. His When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor, which was selected as one of the notable books of 1996 by the editors of the New York Times Book Review and received the Sidney Hillman Foundation Award. His The Bridge Over the Racial Divide: Rising Inequality and Coalition Politics reaffirms the need for a coalition strategy, as Rustin suggested. In Wilson's most recent book, More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City (2009), he directs his attention to the overall framing of pervasive, concentrated urban poverty of African Americans. He asks the question, "Why do poverty and unequal opportunity persist in the lives of so many African Americans?" In response, he traces the history and current state of powerful structural factors impacting African Americans, such as discrimination in laws, policies, hiring, housing, and education. Wilson also examines the interplay of structural factors and the attitudes and assumptions of African Americans, European Americans, and social science researchers. In identifying the dynamic influence of structural, economic, and cultural factors, he argues against either/or politicized views of poverty among African Americans that either focus blame solely on cultural factors or only on unjust structural factors. He tries "to demonstrate the importance of understanding not only the independent contributions of social structure and culture, but also how they interact to shape different group outcomes that embody racial inequality." Wilson's goal is to "rethink the way we talk about addressing the problems of race and urban poverty in the public policy arena." [1]
19.^ Jump up to: a b "Socialist Party Now the Social Democrats, U.S.A.". The New York Times. December 31, 1972. Retrieved February 8, 2010. (limited free access)
20.Jump up ^ Rustin 2012, pp. 291-2
21.Jump up ^ Podair, Jerald E. "Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer" (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Pub., 2009). ISBN 074254513X
22.Jump up ^ Podair 2009, pp. 99
23.Jump up ^ http://archive.org/download/AfricaSovietImperialismAndTheRetreatOfAmericanPower/SDP2.pdf
24.Jump up ^ "Freedom House: A History".
25.Jump up ^ Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou (June 26, 2009). "Gays Are the New Niggers". Killing the Buddha. Retrieved 2 July 2009.
26.Jump up ^ "Bayard Rustin Is Dead at 75; Pacifist and a Rights Activist", New York Times
27.Jump up ^ http://rustin.org/?page_id=11
28.Jump up ^ http://www.outsports.com/os/index.php/component/content/article/45-2009/170-bayard-rustin-offensive-lineman-for-freedom
29.Jump up ^ "Brother Outsider – Home".
30.Jump up ^ Murdoch, Joyce; Price, Deb (May 8, 2002). Courting justice: gay men and lesbians v. the Supreme Court. Basic Books. p. 292. ISBN 978-0-465-01514-6. Retrieved October 13, 2011.
31.Jump up ^ "H.S. 440 Bayard Rustin Educational Complex" at InsideSchools.org
32.Jump up ^ "The Bayard Rustin Center for Lgbtqa Activism, Education and Reconciliation – Community – Greensboro". Facebook. September 21, 2011.
33.Jump up ^ http://www.guilford.edu/about_guilford/news_and_publications/releases/brc_opening.html
34.Jump up ^ "Out of the Past at imdb.com".
35.Jump up ^ "Bayard Rustin Marker". Hmdb.org.
36.Jump up ^ "President Obama Names Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients". Office of the Press Secretary, The White House. August 8, 2013. Retrieved August 8, 2013.
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Bennett, Scott H. Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915–1963. (Syracuse Univ. Press, 2003). ISBN 0-8156-3028-X.
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63 (New York: Touchstone, 1989).
Carbado, Devon W. and Donald Weise, editors. Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2003). ISBN 1-57344-174-0
D’Emilio, John. Lost Prophet: Bayard Rustin and the Quest for Peace and Justice in America (New York: The Free Press, 2003).
D'Emilio, John. Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2004). ISBN 0-226-14269-8
Haskins, James. Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement (New York: Hyperion, 1997).
Kates, Nancy and Bennett Singer (dirs.) Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin (2003)
King, Martin Luther Jr.; Carson, Clayborne; Luker, Ralph & Penny A. Russell The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957 – December 1958. University of California Press, 2000. ISBN 0-520-22231-8
Podair, Jerald E. "Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer" (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Pub., 2009). ISBN 978-0-7425-4513-7
Levine, Daniel (2000). Bayard Rustin and the civil rights movement. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. p. 352. ISBN 0-8135-2718-X.
Lewis, David L. King: A Biography. (University of Illinois Press, 1978). ISBN 0-252-00680-1.
Rustin, Bayard. Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971).
Rustin, Bayard; Bond, Julian (2012). I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters. City Lights Books. ISBN 978-0-87286-578-5.
External links[edit]
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Anonymous; Rustin, Bayard (October 7, 1982). Interview with Bayard Rustin, 1982 (41:03:24 minutes, video interview with synchronized transcript). Open Vault Media Archives, WGBH. Bibcode:301258.
Works by or about Bayard Rustin in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Bayard Rustin – Who Is This Man?
FBI file on Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin, Civil Rights Leader, from Quakerinfo.org
Brother Outsider, a documentary on Rustin
Randall Kennedy, "From Protest to Patronage." The Nation
Biography on Bayard Rustin High School's website
Bayard Rustin at the Internet Broadway Database
"Bayard Rustin". Find a Grave. Retrieved June 10, 2013.

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West Chester Rustin High School

Location
West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
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Type
High School
Established
2006
Principal
Dr. Phyllis Simmons
Grades
9-12
Number of students
About 1,340
School color(s)
Navy Blue, Vegas Gold and White
Athletics
Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association
Mascot
Golden Knight
Website
Official We bsite
Bayard Rustin High School is the third and newest high school of the West Chester Area School District in West Chester, Pennsylvania, named after civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, himself a West Chester native. Construction began in 2003 and the school opened for the 2006-2007 school year. Since opening, Rustin has excelled in both academic competitions and athletic competitions, and in 2011 was named one of Newsweek's top 500 high schools in America.[1]

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Academic Competitions[edit]
In 2008, the Rustin Science Olympiad team placed fifth in the Pennsylvania State Tournament. In both 2009 and 2010, the Rustin Science Olympiad team placed third in the Pennsylvania State Tournament. In 2012, the Rustin Science Olympiad team placed Second in the Pennsylvania State Tournament, advancing to the Science Olympiad National Tournament.
In 2010, the Rustin Varsity Academic Competition Team, participating in a series of quiz bowl tournaments, placed first in the regional semi-final tournament, placed first in the regional championship tournament, and placed first in the Pennsylvania Academic Competition. In 2011, they returned to the state championship competition, losing in the semifinal round.
In 2008, sophomore Ethan Marshall placed first and sophomore Lisa Xu placed seventh in their events in the national FBLA competition. In 2009, freshman Karen Jin placed first and junior Lisa Xu placed third in their events in the national FBLA competition.
In 2008, 2009, and 2010, the Rustin Mock Trial team advanced to the county playoff round.
Since the school opened in 2007, the Rustin DECA organization has had members advance to the National Competition. It has one of the largest DECA programs in the state.
In 2010, the Rustin Speech and Debate team advanced to the Pennsylvania State competition.
Athletics[edit]
In 2006, the Rustin Girls Soccer team won the District 1 class AA Championship.
In 2008, the Rustin football team won the District 1 class AAA Championship.
In 2009, the Rustin ice hockey team won the Flyers Cup, defeating Hershey 3-2. Later in 2009, the team won the Pennsylvania State Championship, dismantling Mars High School 5-0. Then in 2010, the Rustin Ice Hockey team won the Flyers cup again but lost to Mars in the State Championship.
In 2009, All-American Senior Laura McGlaughlin won the State Championship in the 100m breaststroke, and was named swimmer of the year by the Daily Local Newspaper.
Music[edit]
The Rustin Marching Band captured the school's first State Championship in 2006 at the USSBA All States Championships in Allentown. As a result the band was invited to compete in the USSBA National Championships in 2007. The marching band captured another State Championship in 2009 and was again invited to compete in the USSBA National Championships in 2010. They will also be going again for a third time in 2011 thanks to their performance at the 2010 National Championships.
In its first year, the music program produced one musician that was invited to PMEA's District 12 Band. In the 2008-2009 season several more musicians were invited to the PMEA tournament with three progressing to the All State Band or Orchestra. One member of the band was named an All American and participated in the US Army's band program. In 2010- 2011, several more made it to districts with two musicians progressing to All States, one to the All State Band, and one to the Chorus.
Community service[edit]
Rustin has several community service clubs, including KICS (school-run), Key Club (branch of Kiwanis), and Interact (branch of Rotary International). Students do various service activities ranging from collecting arts and crafts supplies to helping elementary schools, conducting various drives, and fundraising.
Rustin also held its own community fair for the first time in 2009 to raise awareness about service and clubs in the community.
Rustin's Key Club was started by Helen Liu. In March 2010, the Pennsylvania District of Key Club International inducted Liu to the position of Lieutenant Governor of her Key Club Division. In March 2011, the Pennsylvania District of Key Club International elected Liu as the District Governor of all of Pennsylvania Key Club, the highest of only three state officer positions.
References[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "West Chester Bayard Rustin High School Named to Newsweek Magazine's List of Top 500 High Schools in America".
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