• Home
    • News
  • About
    • About Roy Innis
    • CORE Facts
    • The Civil Rights Movement >
      • Freedom Rides
      • Freedom Summer
      • Sit-Ins
      • Voting Rights Act of 1965
      • Civil Rights Acts
      • Key Legislation
      • Brown vs Board of Education
      • Browder v. Gayle
      • Rosa Parks
      • Montgomery Bus Boycott
      • March on Washington
    • CORE Founders >
      • George Houser
      • Homer Jack
      • James Farmer
      • Bayard Rustin
    • CORE Leadership
    • The CORE Board
    • CORE International
  • Immigration: Join America
    • Immigration 101
    • CORE Immigration Services
    • Community Service Outreach
    • Citizenship Program
    • Nevadan By Choice
    • Photo Galleries >
      • Citizenship Classes
      • Citizenship Workshop
      • Domestic Violence Speech
      • La Posada Festival
  • Programs
    • Civil Rights Boot Camp
    • Job Training and Placement
    • Financial Literacy >
      • FLCA in Ohio
    • UN Programs
    • Anti-Malaria Campaign
    • Project Independence
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
    • Martin Luther King Dinners >
      • Photo Galleries
  • Events
    • Videos
    • UN Seminars
    • Community Healthcare Annual Expos
    • Street Fair
    • World Conference
  • Donate
    • Real Black Power Petition
    • Join
    • Contact
Congress Of Racial Equality
 (702) 637-7968 
Picture

Bayard Rustin (1910-1987)

Civil Rights Leader & Political Organizer

Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin was born into a Quaker family. The pacifism he learned from the Society of Friends remained with him his entire life. After a comfortable childhood in West Chester, Pennsylvania, he studied at West Chester State College. Before graduating, he moved to Harlem during the 1930’s and began studying at City College, while singing in local clubs with African American folk artists Josh White and Huddie Ledbetter.  Attracted to the Young Communist League's stance on race issues, Rustin joined the group in 1936 and worked as an organizer until 1941 when he quit the party.
However, his resistance to the government continued throughout 1941 when Rustin was asked by A. Philip Randolph to help plan a 1941 march on Washington, D.C., to protest discrimination in defense industries. The march was called off when President Roosevelt made concessions. During World War II, Rustin traveled to California to help interned Japanese Americans protect their property. As a pacifist, Rustin spent two and a half years in prison for refusing to serve in the military.
Rustin's involvement in the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), a radical pacifist movement that connected him to the establishment of the New York branch of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).  Throughout the 1940’s and 1950’s, he led weekend seminars on nonviolent action for both groups.
Rustin helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955, and he was also involved in the formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. In August of 1963 he served as the coordinator of the March on Washington, an event attended by 200,000 people. Rustin was arrested 23 times. He continued to believe that racial equality should be pursued through nonviolent means.

Find our Education featured page as a Las Vegas, NV Business in the Las Vegas Valley Directory.
Location: Las Vegas, NV, United States | Phone: (702) 637-7968

Powered by: Success City Online  copyright 2021