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2 unusual facts about Bayard Rustin


Bayard Rustin

Rustin's analysis was supported by later research by William Julius Wilson.

Rustin traveled to California to help protect the property of Japanese Americans who had been imprisoned in internment camps.


1964 Democratic National Convention

Eventually, Hubert Humphrey, Walter Reuther and the black civil rights leaders including Roy Wilkins and Bayard Rustin worked out a compromise: two of the 68 MFDP delegates chosen by Johnson would be made at-large delegates and the remainder would be non-voting guests of the convention; the regular Mississippi delegation was required to pledge to support the party ticket; and no future Democratic convention would accept a delegation chosen by a discriminatory poll.


see also

Rustin

West Chester Rustin High School, a high school in Pennsylvania named after Bayard Rustin