As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my ...

Although Bayard Rustin was one of the most important leaders of the American civil rights movement from the advent of its modern period in the 1950s until well into the 1980s, his name was seldom ...

Its author was none other than Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader—and later one of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s top confidants. “As I lay in bed for a few last minutes’ rest ...

Count yourself lucky to be able to recount the activism done by Bayard Rustin. The National Civil Rights Museum’s new exhibit, “Speaking Truth to Power: The Life of Bayard Rustin,” lays out an ...

Bayard Rustin, a native of West Chester, was a close advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and played a pivotal role in ...