The day culminated in picnics, speeches, fireworks ... Social activists in more modern times included civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, worker rights advocate and Secretary of Labor Frances ...

He spoke with power, clarity and conviction, delivering speeches that moved crowds and ... Field: Civil Rights Strategy Bayard Rustin was the tactical genius behind many of the Civil Rights ...

His impassioned speeches, sharp intellect and militant ... A master strategist and committed pacifist, Bayard Rustin was the architect behind many of the civil rights movement’s most important ...

Nicole Acevedo NBC News Watch moments from the 97th Academy Awards, including clips from the acceptance speeches ... an Oscar for "Rustin," the biopic of civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.

Figures like Bayard Rustin and John Lewis were also instrumental ... The people who made speeches and sang songs were doing their part. The people who marched in the streets were doing their ...

“You have to join every other movement for the freedom of the people,” said labor leader and organizer Bayard Rustin, who famously planned and ... Known for his empowering words and speeches, Randolph ...

The movement was Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Clark, Rev. John Lewis, Andrew Young, Diane Nash, Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin ... debates, speeches and courage in the face of violence and grave injustice.

I am old enough to have grown up in a church that still printed MLK’s picture on its hand fans; had children recite speeches of Martin and Malcolm ... Philip Randolph) and a gay Black man (Bayard ...

BAYARD RUSTIN – Black Man - American political ... close friend of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., for whom he helped write speeches, raise funds, and organize events. Ages 44-51.