Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin is a person.
- See: Neoconservatism, Ronald Reagan, Presidential Medal of Freedom, West Chester, Pennsylvania, New York City, Walter Naegle, March on Washington For Jobs And Freedom, Washington, D.C., Civil Rights Movement, Peace Movement, Socialist Party of America, LGBT Social Movements.
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- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayard_Rustin Retrieved:2023-1-14.
- Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an African American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights.
Rustin worked with A. Philip Randolph on the March on Washington Movement, in 1941, to press for an end to racial discrimination in employment. Rustin later organized Freedom Rides, and helped to organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to strengthen Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership and teaching King about nonviolence; he later served as an organizer for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.[1] Rustin worked alongside Ella Baker, a co-director of the Crusade for Citizenship, in 1954; and before the Montgomery bus boycott, he helped organize a group, called "In Friendship", amongst Baker, Stanley Levison of the American Jewish Congress, and some other labor leaders. “In Friendship" provided material and legal assistance to those being evicted from their tenant farms and households in Clarendon County, Yazoo, and other places. 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. During the 1970s and 1980s, Rustin served on many humanitarian missions, such as aiding refugees from Vietnam and Cambodia. At the time of his death in 1987, he was on a humanitarian mission in Haiti. Rustin was a gay man and, due to criticism over his sexuality, he usually acted as an influential adviser behind the scenes to civil-rights leaders. In the 1980s, he became a public advocate on behalf of gay causes, speaking at events as an activist and supporter of human rights. Later in life, while still devoted to securing workers' rights, Rustin joined other union leaders in aligning with ideological neoconservatism, [2] [3] and (after his death) President Ronald Reagan praised him.[4] On November 20, 2013, President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[5]
- Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an African American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights.
- ↑ "Bayard Rustin". National Park Service. Retrieved June 27, 2016.
- ↑ Justin Vaïsse, Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement (Harvard University Press, 2010), p.71-75
- ↑ "Table: The Three Ages of Neoconservatism" , Neoconservatism: Biography of Movement by Justin Vaisse, official website
- ↑ Associated Press, "Reagan Praises Deceased Civil Rights Leader"
- ↑ Justin Snow (November 20, 2013). "Obama honors Bayard Rustin and Sally Ride with Medal of Freedom". metroweekly.com. Retrieved November 21, 2013.