Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Feb. 2, 1964, image, Bayard Rustin talks on a telephone from a church in Brooklyn, New York. Patrick A. Burns/New York ...
Bayard Rustin is one of the most interesting and enigmatic figures in 20th-century American history yet, John D'Emilio argues in this comprehensive, nuanced and thoroughly admirable biography, "a man ...
Unlike civil rights legends such as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Rosa Parks and John Lewis, Bayard Rustin is not a household name six decades after the March on Washington. Yet ...