Bayard Rustin papers, 1942-1987 (inclusive), [microform]

23 reels.

English

Bayard Rustin was born in 1910 and raised in southeastern Pennsylvania. He attended Cheney Institute and the College of the City of New York. Rustin was active in a number of organizations, including Fellowship of Reconciliation, Congress of Racial Equality, and War Resisters League, and played a pivotal role in organizing the 1963 March on Washington. As an organizer, strategist, and pioneer in the use of Gandhian tactics, Bayard Rustin was one of the most influential black protest leaders of the twentieth century. He died in 1987.

The papers consist of correspondence, alphabetical and chronological subject files, articles, essays, symposia remarks, and speeches documenting Bayard Rustin's social activism.

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June 01, 2002