To commemorate the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, a memorial was placed in front of his long-time
To commemorate the life and legacy of Bayard Rustin, a memorial was placed in front of his long-time residence at Penn South, an affordable housing cooperative, in Manhattan, NY. The memorial was dedicated on Thursday, June 28, 2018 on West 28th Street between Eighth and Ninth Avenues in Manhattan. About Bayard Rustin: Bayard Rustin was an essential figure in the Civil Rights Movement. He pioneered the use of nonviolent civil disobedience in struggles to dismantle racial discrimination and segregation laws in the U.S. He was a mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. He dedicated his life to struggles for freedom and equality. Yet many of his contributions were obscured during his lifetime because he lived openly as a gay man in an era of intense discrimination. -- source link
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