| LC control no. | n 87809562 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 |
| See also | Officer of: A. Philip Randolph Institute |
| Other standard no. | 0000 0001 2132 1856 49401907 Q187930 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1912-03-17 |
| Death date | 1987-08-24 |
| Place of birth | West Chester (Pa.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Nonviolence Social change |
| Affiliation | Fellowship of Reconciliation (U.S.) Congress of Racial Equality Young Communist League of the U.S. City University of New York. City College Southern Christian Leadership Conference Congress of Racial Equality |
| Profession or occupation | Civil rights workers Activists Pacifists Political activists African American civil rights workers |
| Found in | nuc86-7221: His Affirmative action in an economy ... 1974? (hdg. on NcD rept.: Rustin, Bayard, 1910- ; usage: Bayard Rustin) LC data base, 2/19/87 (hdg.: Rustin, Bayard, 1910- ) Bayard Rustin, 1997: CIP t.p. (Bayard Rustin) galley (Bayard Taylor Rustin; b. Mar. 17, 1912; d. Aug. 24, 1987) New York times, 8/25/87 (Bayard Rustin; b. Mar. 17, 1912; d. Aug. 24, 1987) Washington post, 8/25/87 (Bayard Rustin; b. Mar. 17, 1912; d. Aug. 24, 1987) Wikipedia, viewed June 5, 2013 (Bayard Rustin; Mar. 17, 1912--Aug. 24, 1987) was an American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, pacifism and non-violence, and gay rights; Born: Mar. 17, 1912, West Chester, Penn.; Died: Aug. 24, 1987 (aged 75), Manhattan, New York; Organizations: Fellowship of Reconciliation, Congress of Racial Equality, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Social Democrats, USA (National Chairman), A. Philip Randolph Institute (President)) African American National Biography, accessed September 12, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Rustin, Bayard; Rustin, Bayard Taylor; civil rights activist, political activist; born 17 March 1912 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States; attended Wilberforce University, Ohio; studied at Cheyney State Teachers College, West Chester; attended the City College of New York; organizer for the Young Communist League (YCL), Harlem; appointed, youth secretary, FOR (1942); imprisoned for refusing to appear before his military draft board (1944); released from prison (1947); joined the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE); in March 1960 headed the Committee to Defend Martin Luther King, after the state of Alabama indictment on trumped-up charges of tax evasion and perjury; worked with the World Peace Brigade (1961-1962); in his final decade he became more open about his homosexuality, but did not take an active role in the growing gay rights movement; awarded posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom (2013); died 24 August 1987 in New York, New York, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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