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Rustin
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Rus·tin  (rstn), Bayard 1910-1987.
American civil rights leader and pacifist who organized the 1963 March on Washington.


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On Thursday, the film "Civil Rights as Human Rights: The Contributions of Bayard Rustin to Martin Luther King Jr.
And Bayard Rustin who organized the Great March on Washington in 1963 that roused American public opinion to push for the landmark Civil Rights Act that abolished Southern segregation.
Grant's The Flaming Fury of Bayard Rustin the Queen at the End of the Bar, 2008, a suite of twenty-four mixed-media panels reproducing parts of images culled from the High Museum's collection of civil rights-era photographs, sparely evokes the violence and tensions of the times.
 
 
 
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