As I began writing "Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer," my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues cautioned me …
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Remembering Bayard Rustin, Civil Rights Leader and Gay Activist
Bayard Rustin fought racism, sexism and classism all his life as a civil rights activist, friend of Martin Luther King Jr. and organizer of the March on Washington. Plus more remarkable Black leaders and history in honor of Black History Month.
Black History Month
It's been said that history is often written by the victors, but in the case of the Civil War, the saying might not hold true. Although the Union …
More than two centuries after the birth of Frederick Douglass, few men or women have come close to achieving his skills as both an orator and an …
Most of us know Rosa Parks as the African American woman who quietly, but firmly, refused to give up her bus seat to a white person Dec. 1, 1955, in …
Over the past seven decades, longtime Alabama civil rights lawyer Fred Gray represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and the victims of the …
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