I'm preparing for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday by reading books and watching documentaries about the civil rights leader's life work. It was during my deep dive into the life of a ...

“Bayard Rustin was a civil rights organizer in the ... it’s historically caused people to see it as the “I Have a Dream” speech and to try to use it as a way to promote Dr. King as some ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN. Now the home of ...

Rustin and Randolph worked again in 1948 on a successful campaign to end segregation in the U.S. military under President Harry Truman. A pacifist, Rustin protested World War II by resisting the draft ...

But it wasn’t easy, because Bayard Rustin was America’s signature radical ... remarks eventually constituted one of the greatest speeches ever delivered in American history.

But it wasn’t easy, because Bayard Rustin was America ... constituted one of the greatest speeches ever delivered in American history. Rustin’s internal conflicts The constituent parts ...