Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States on March 17th, 1912 and is the Civil Rights Leader. At the age of 75, Bayard Rustin biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was a leader of civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights in the United States. Rustin marched on Washington in 1941 to demand an end to racial discrimination in jobs.
Rustin later organized Freedom Rides and helped to promote Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership, taught King about nonviolence, and later served as the lead of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
Rustin was involved in many humanitarian causes during the 1970s and 1980s, including supporting refugees in Communist Vietnam and Cambodia.
He was on a humanitarian trip in Haiti at the time of his death in 1987. Rustin was a homosexual man who had been detained early in his career for participating in public sex.
He often served as an influential strategist behind the scenes to civil-rights leaders due to skepticism about his sexuality.
In the 1980s, he became a public advocate for gay causes. Rustin's ideological shift toward neoconservatism, for which President Ronald Reagan lauded him after his death in 1987.
President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 20, 2013.
Early life and education
Rustin was born in 1912 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, to Florence Rustin and Archie Hopkins, but he was raised by his maternal grandparents, Julia (Davis) and Janifer Rustin as the ninth of their twelve children, but growing up, he believed his biological mother was his older sister. His grandparents, who lived in Rustin, were largely wealthy local caterers. Julia Rustin was a Quaker, but 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). W.E.B. is one of the NAACP's most influential figures. Du Bois and James Weldon Johnson were regular visitors in the Rustin household. Rustin protested racially discriminatory Jim Crow legislation in his youth.
Rustin's first documented discovery of his sexuality came when he told his grandmother that he preferred to spend time with males rather than females. "I suppose that's what you need to do," she said.
Rustin founded Wilberforce College, a historically black college (HBCU) in Ohio operated by the AME Church in 1932. Rustin was active in a variety of campus organizations, including the Omega Psi Phi fraternity. He was banned from Wilberforce in 1936 after organising a strike and later attended Cheyney State Teachers College (now Cheyney University of Pennsylvania). At its 2013 commencement, Cheyney presented Rustin with a posthumous "Doctor of Humane Letters" degree.
Rustin came to Harlem in 1937 and began studying at City College of New York after finishing an activist training program administered by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). He became involved in attempts to protect and free the Scottsboro Boys, nine young black men in Alabama who had been accused of murdering two white women. In 1936, he joined the Young Communist League for a brief period of time before being disillusioned with the organization. He became a member of the Fifteenth Street Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends shortly after arriving in New York City (Quakers).
Rustin was a natural tenor vocalist, whose gift gained him admission to both Wilberforce University and Cheyney State Teachers College with music scholarships. He appeared in the chorus of the short-lived Broadway musical John Henry, which starred Paul Robeson in 1939. Josh White, a member of the Blues, later invited Rustin to join his gospel and vocal harmony group "Josh White and the Carolinians," with whom he had released several albums. Rustin had a chance to perform at the Café Society nightclub in Greenwich Village, broadening his social and academic contacts. Bayard Rustin Sings' Program of Spirituals is one of a few albums on Fellowship Records featuring his singing, such as Bayard Rustin Sings a Program of Spirituals, which was released from the 1950s to the 1970s.
