Bayard+Rustin

See United States History II.25 for more the accomplishments of the Civil Rights Movement

Bayard Rustin was an advocate of racial integration and a critic of Malcolm X.

He was openly gay and faced discrimination based on his sexual orientation.

[|Black, Gay and a Pacifist: Bayard Rustin Remembered for Role in March on Washington, Mentoring MLK], Democracy Now (August 12, 2013)

[|Obama Awards Bayard Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom], Moyers & Company, August 10, 2013

[|History's People: Remembering Bayard Rustin], Chester County Historical Society



**Primary Sources**
[|Bayard Rustin FBI Records]

[|Interview with Bayard Rustin, 1979] from Eyes on the Prize Interviews

[|Economic Bill of Rights], drafted by Bayard Rustin and presented to President Lyndon Johnson, April 4, 1968



**Multimedia Resources**

 * [|Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin]**

Click here to see a short video clip of a debate between Bayard Rustin and Malcolm X on YouTube.


 * [[image:Screen Shot 2016-04-13 at 3.13.34 PM.png]]Historical Connections for the March on Washington**

[|A. Philip Randolph Proposed March on Washington, 1941] from PBS The Strange Career of Jim Crow