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Bayard Rustin: Troubles I'Ve Seen: A Biography
Published in Hardcover by HarperCollins (1997)
Author: Jervis Anderson
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Just Like You and Me, Only Different
BAYARD RUSTIN, an African-American gay man, was one of the most complex and interesting of the black intellectuals during a period of dramatic change in America. He is perhaps best known as the organizer of the 1963 march on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his memorable "I Have a Dream" speech. Although Rustin headed no civil rights organization, during most of his career he was a moral and tactical spokesman for them all. Committed to the Ghandian principle of nonviolence, he was the movement's ablest strategist and an indispensable intellectual resource for such major black leaders as Dr. King, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young, Dorothy Height and James Farmer. Rustin not only helped to organize the Montgomery boycott of 1955-56 but also drew up the original plan for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the organization that spearheaded King's nonviolent crusade.

But Rustin's career predated the more spectacular phase of the civil rights movement and was not limited to the black freedom struggle. Raised as a Quaker, he was a pacifist and human rights activist all his life, starting as an imprisoned conscientious objector during World War II and Continuing on for the next thirty years as a founding member of the Congress of Racial Equality in the 1940s to heading the A. Philip Randolph Institute in the 1960s and '70s. In his later years, he became a controversial figure in the civil rights struggle as he took issue with some of the stances of the black power and black consciousness movements.

In this landmark biography, historian and biographer Jervis Anderson gives a full account of the life of this inspiring figure. With complete access to Rustin's papers and the cooperation of Rustin's friends and colleagues, Anderson has written an enriching and insightful book on the life of one of the most important heroes of the movements for civil rights and social reform.


Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement
Published in Hardcover by Rutgers University Press (1999)
Author: Daniel Levine
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The Bayard Rustin Papers
Published in Hardcover by University Publications of America (1988)
Authors: Bayard Rustin, Nanette Dobrosky, and University Publications of America Inc
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Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement
Published in Library Binding by Hyperion Press (1997)
Author: James Haskins
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Down the line
Published in Unknown Binding by Quadrangle Books ()
Author: Bayard Rustin
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Lost Prophet : The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
Published in Hardcover by Free Press (11 August, 2003)
Author: John D'emilio
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Strategies for freedom : the changing patterns of Black protest
Published in Unknown Binding by Columbia University Press ()
Author: Bayard Rustin
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Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
Published in Paperback by Cleis Press (2003)
Authors: Bayard Rustin, Devon W. Carbado, Donald Weise, and Beyard Rustin
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