Bayard Rustin And The Civil Rights Movement

BY DANIEL LEVINE

Brief Description:
Rustin's long activist career began with his association with A. Philip Randolph of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. Then, as a member of A.J. Muste's Fellowship of Reconciliation, he participated in the "Journey of Reconciliation" (an early version of the "Freedom Rides" of 1961). He was a close associate of Martin Luther King in Montgomery and Atlanta and rose to prominence as organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Rustin played a key role in applying nonviolent direct action to American race relations while rejecting the separatism of movements like Black Power in the 1960s, even at the risk of his being marginalized by the younger generation of civil rights activists.

Rutgers 2000 307 PP. Cloth

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