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BAYARD RUSTIN POSTHUMOUSLYAWARDED THE 2013 PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM
A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. He brought Gandhis protest techniques to the American civil rights movement and played a deeply influential role in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., helping to mold him into an international symbol of nonviolence.
Despite these achievements, Rustin often remained in the background. He was silenced, threatened, arrested, beaten, imprisoned, and fired from important leadership positions, largely because he was an openly gay man in a fiercely homophobic era.
Here we have Rustin in his own words in a collection of over 150 of his eloquent, impassioned letters; his correspondents include the major progressives of his day including Eleanor Holmes Norton, A Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, Ella Baker, and of course, Martin Luther King Jr.
Bayard Rustins ability to chart the path from protest to politics is both timely and deeply informative. Here, at last, is direct access to the strategic thinking and tactical planning that led to the successes of one of Americas most transformative and historic social movements.
Rustin was a life-long agitator for justice. He changed America and the world for the better. This collection of his letters makes his life and his passions come vividly alive, and helps restore him to history, a century after this birth. I Must Resist makes for inspiring reading. John DEmilio, author of Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
A vital addition to the history of the civil rights movement by an exceptionally determined, vital and creative force who was invaluable to Martin Luther King Jr and A. Philip Randolph among many others. Nat Hentoff
Bayard Rustins courageously candid letters, most of which have never before been available to researchers, provide fascinating glimpses into the private life of one of historys most reticent public figures. Clayborne Carson, Founding Director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University
These letters poetic, incisive, passionate, and above all political in the broadest meaning of the word span almost four decades not only of Bayard Rustins life but of the emotional and spiritual life of America. There is hardly a social justice movement during this time in which Rustin was not involved from pacifism to ending poverty to battles for sexual freedom. Michael Longs brilliant editing has created a compelling historical narrative and reading these letters is to be witness to the ever-evolving conscience that guides our countrys endangered, but surviving, commitment to freedom. Michael Bronksi, author of A Queer History of the United States
Bayard Rustin was a committed but very complicated person. This marvelously annotated collection of letters explain the spirit, and evolution of the thoughts and actions of an often overlooked key figure in the 20th century civil and human rights movement. Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine Segal Professor of American Social Thought, University of Pennsylvania, and former Chair United States Commission on Civil Rights
All aspects of Rustins experiences are captured in these letters, including his struggles with opponents dedicated to silencing him as an international symbol of nonviolent protests against racial injustice. This remarkable and deeply moving publication is a must-read....
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Aberman, Sid, 272
Abernathy, Juanita, 183
Abernathy, Ralph David, 165, 167, 170, 183, 199200, 212; Harrold Carswell and, 369; libel suit and, 231; MLK assassination and, 454; Poor Peoples Campaign and, 347, 348; Richard Nixon and, 196, 199; SCLC and, 218; as signatory, 233, 369; Stanley Levison and, 350, 352
Abram, Morris, 310
ACLU. See American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Adams, Sherman, 187
Ad Hoc Committee on the Rights of Soviet Jewry, 331
Adolph Coors Company, 47273
Advisory Commission on Military Training, 102
AFL-CIO, 233, 300, 320, 346, 375, 390, 391, 405
AFL-CIO Free Trade Union News , 431
Africa, 14244, 160, 22126 passim, 237, 24851, 258, 345, 430; African Americans and, 35658; Israel and, 401, 413; proposed MLK trip to, 180, 183, 196; whites and, 363. See also Algeria; Egypt; Ghana; Namibia; South Africa; Uganda
African National Congress (ANC), 142, 299, 46567
AFSC. See American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
Agnew, Spiro, 35556
Alabama, 179, 22932 passim, 273, 275, 276, 319. See also Birmingham, Alabama; Montgomery, Alabama
Alabama State College, 168
Albany, New York, 287
Albert, Carl, 282
Albright, Robert, 9192
Alexander, Grace, 9091
Algeria, 215, 225, 292, 414
All India Congress Party, 12324
Almond, Lindsay, Jr., 2045
Alpen, Ted, 381
Alstork, F. W., 99
American Association of University Women, 149
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 467
American Committee on Africa, 299, 379
American Forum for Socialist Education, 194
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), ix, 27, 28, 34, 138, 149, 151, 16061; CNVA and, 203; Ralph David Abernathy and, 199; Rustin arrest of 1953 and, 15253, 157; Youth March for Integrated Schools and, 204
American Jewish Congress, 41114
American Psychiatric Association, 156
American Revolution, 116
Americans for South African Resistance, 299
Amin, Idi, 405
Anderson, Jervis, 343, 39394
Anglican Church of Canada, 457
A. Philip Randolph: A Biographical Portrait (Anderson), 39394
A. Philip Randolph Education Fund, 451
A. Philip Randolph Institute (APRI). See Randolph Institute (APRI)
Arafat, Yasser, 397
Aronson, Arnold, 271
Ascher, Robert, 15657
Ashland Federal Correctional Institution, xiii, 1378 passim
Atlanta, 9394, 183, 184; Crusade for Citizenship in, 201; FBI in, 34647; MLK move to, 219; National Association of Black and White Men Together chapter, 455. See also Bowers v. Hardwick
Atlantic Greyhound Lines, 1057
Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (UK), 203
Auden, W. H., 75
Austin, Texas, 389
Azikwe, Nnamdi, 142, 143
Baez, Joan, 27172
Baker, Ella, 179, 188, 201, 216, 21819, 25859; as signatory, 190
Baldwin, James, 24243, 27375 passim
Banks, Dennis, 99
Baptist Ministers Alliance, 208
Baraka, Amiri. See Jones, LeRoi
BASIC. See Black Americans to Support Israel Committee (BASIC)
Beam, Joseph, 46061
Bearing the Cross (Garrow), 47172
Begin, Menachem, 420, 43334
Belafonte, Harry, 204, 233
Bell, Tart, 171
Bennett, James, 13, 17, 3839, 78, 8183 passim; letters of, 4647; letters to, 1920, 4445, 56, 7374
Bethune, Mary McLeod, xvi, 95, 98
Bevel, Jim, 260
Bevins, S. Marshall, 330
Billings, Thomas, 36264
Birmingham, Alabama, 175, 208, 209, 21314, 26061, 273, 274, 306. See also Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama
Black Americans to Elect Carter, 42930
Black Americans to Support Israel Committee (BASIC), 401, 405, 413, 421, 433
Black Leadership Forum, 42021, 422, 435, 439
Black Panther Party, 319, 360, 382, 414
Block, Samuel, 259
Boggs, Hale, 384
Bonus March (1932), 41, 42
Boone, Raymond, 419
Boston, 396, 398, 409
Boston Tea Party, 11516
Bowen, Carroll, 16465
Bowers, Michael, 467
Bowers v. Hardwick , 46769
Bowles, Chester, 236, 237
Brache, Ruben, 314, 315
Bradley, Omar, 118
Brando, Marlon, 231
Brathwaite, Ellen, 271
Bristol, Jim, 153
Britain. See Great Britain
Bromley, Ernest, 99
Brooks, Phillip, 71, 80
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 464
Browder v. Gale , 179
Brown, Arthur, 16573
Brown, H. Rap, 360, 464
Brownell, Howard, 187
Brown v. Board of Education , 184, 186, 191, 193, 2047 passim, 237, 389
Bryn Mawr College, 24
Bubnov, Igor, 331
Buckley, William F., Jr., 317
Buffalo, New York, 8991, 247
Bureau of Prisons, 1617, 82, 8586
Burger, Warren, 468
Butcher, Charles, 21
Buthelezi, Gatsha, 451
Cambodia, 415, 416
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), 287
Campbell, Leslie, 360
Canby, Henry Seidel, 30, 31
Carmichael, Stokely, 260, 316, 32327, 333, 464
Carnegie Hall, 227
Carswell, G. Harrold, 36769, 370
Carter, April, 215
Carter, Jimmy, 4068, 421, 422, 42930, 444; letters to, 41517, 42426
Cary, Steve, 16061, 199200
Cassese, John, 31718
Catholic Worker Movement, 162, 203
Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors (CCCO), 162
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 292, 325
Chalmers, Allan Knight, 156, 158
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 100, 101, 123, 133
Chapman, Tom, 1045
Chartier, Richard, 43940
Chase Manhattan Bank, 299301 passim
Chvez, Csar, 344
Cheyney State College, 386, 410
Chicago, 120, 129, 138, 336, 453; Republican convention in, 219, 235, 244
Childrens Art Carnival, Harlem, 47273
China, 29192
Chisholm, Shirley, 38485
Chmielewski, Wendy, 2
Christ. See Jesus Christ
Christian Century , 177, 178
CIA. See Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Cicero, Illinois, 13839, 168
Citizens Commission on Indochinese Refugees, 41516
City College of New York, 265
Civil Defense Administration, 162
Civil Defense Protest Committee (CDPC), 248
Civilian Public Service (CPS), 1, 3, 4, 5, 10, 61
Civil Rights Act of 1957, 196
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 294
Civil Rights Commission, 237
Clark, Eleanor, 152
Clark, Henry, 138
Clark, Tom, 88, 89
Clean Air Act, 404
Cleaver, Eldridge, 41415, 464
Clemner, Donald, 4445
Clergy and Laity Concerned, 471
Cleveland, 353, 365
CND. See Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)
Coalition of Black Trade Unionists (CBTU), 39091, 423
Cole, Nat King, 233
Coleman, William, 310
Commentary , 281, 3078, 383
Commission on Civil Disorders. See Kerner Commission
Committee against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training, 110
Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy. See SANE
Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA), 203, 215, 24447 passim, 312
Committee for Nonviolent Integration, 177
Committee on Free Elections in the Dominican Republic, 314
Committee to Defend Martin Luther King, 22932 passim, 248
Committee to Resist Military Segregation, 120
Communist Party USA, x, 78, 194, 195, 265, 279, 310, 336, 337
Congressional Black Caucus, 388, 419
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). See CORE
Connor, Eugene Bull, 213
Coors Company. See Adolph Coors Company
CORE, 140, 171, 174, 265, 289, 453; FOR and, 471; letters to, 9295; March on Washington (1963) and, 260; New York Times ad and, 326
Corpus Christi, Texas, 389
Crisis of Our Age (Sorokin), 31
Crusade for Citizenship, x, 2013
Cuba, 253, 286, 289, 414
Current, Gloster, 269
Currier, Robert, 32
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