Bayard Rustin: Honoring America's 'Lost Prophet' on His 100th Birthday

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Bayard Rustin: Honoring America's 'Lost Prophet' on His 100th Birthday


John D'Emilio, Professor of history and gender and women's studies, University of Illinois at Chicago | Posted: 03/17/2012 11:48 am


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-demilio/bayard-rustin_b_1354552.html


March 17, 2012: St. Patrick's Day, yes, but also the centennial of Bayard Rustin's birth.

Rustin's name does not ring bells for most Americans. Yet the impact that this life-long agitator for justice had on America was profound.

Rustin was more responsible than anyone for making Gandhi's philosophy a central feature of the civil rights movement.

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Happy 100th Birthday Bayard Rustin


Saturday, March 17, 2012


http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/03/happy-100th-birthday-bayard-rustin.html



Bayard Rustin, Left

Today is the 100th birthday of civil rights warrior Bayard Rustin, who was born on this date in West Chester PA in 1912.

Rustin was an unapologetic Black gay man in an era that demanded you be in the closet about it.  He was an architect of many of the innovative strategies that the African American civil rights movement used for it human rights advances.