Bayard Rustin

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Introduction

Bayard Rustin grew up Quaker. He soon learned that Blacks were not given equal rights and let’s learn how he helped to fix that.

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Athlete

Rustin was involved in many sports in high school including track and football, but he wasn’t able to practice with his white teammates at the YMCA.

Behind the scenes

Although he isn’t as well known as Martin Luther King Jr., he helped organize major civil rights groups and famous marches.

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Courage

Rustin showed courage and bravery when fighting for the civil rights of African Americans.

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Discrimination

During Bayard’s lifetime Blacks were discriminated against because of the color of their skin and he worked to put a stop to that.

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Education

Bayard’s main education was when he went to City College in New York.

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Freedom Rides

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Gay Street School

Bayard had his first important lessons here from a teacher named Miss Helena Robinson. He educated him on slavery as well as the Underground Railroad.

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Helping hand

Bayard’s grandparents offered shelter for blacks migrating from the south to the north after World War 1.

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Italians

During Bayard’s time Italians were looked down on because they were Catholics. When Bayard was sixteen, Governor Al Smith of New York, a Catholic, ran for the Democratic Presidential Candidate but lost in a landslide to Herbert Hoover.

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Julia Davis Rustin

Bayard’s grandmother, she raised Bayard and was a strong personality, she stood up for Bayard and taught him how to live life.

Klu Klux Klan

Also known as the KKK, was a racial group formed in the late 1800’s, and were terribly bad to blacks, and wanted to restore slavery by “putting blacks back in their place”. It was a fear of African Americans. It was founded by white southerners who wanted to restore slavery.

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Lincoln Memorial• Bayard Rustin organized the famous

March on Washington. About 250,000 people gathered that day to hear Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I have a dream speech’.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Rustin was a close advisor to Martin Luther King Jr. He also organized the march to Washington in 1863.

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Non-Violent Resistance

Rustin believed in nonviolent resistance to stand up for the civil rights of African Americans.

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Organizer

Rustin helped organize many civil rights marches and major civil rights organizations.

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Prejudice

Growing up, Bayard saw a lots of prejudices (unfavorable opinions) and knew it could come in many different varieties.

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Questionable Education

Bayard Rustin, before settling at City College, organized protests at Wilberforce University and was soon asked to leave. Then he transferred to Cheney Teachers College near West Chester. Then he soon grew tired there and transferred to City College.

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Role model

When in Harlem, Rustin was introduced to Hall Johnson. Johnson was one of the most important black musicians of his time. Also, because Johnson was homosexual, and didn’t flaunt his sexual preferences, Rustin looked up to him as a role model.

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Successful Harlem After Rustin left Cheney, he went to live with

his aunt in Harlem while attending New York City College. Harlem was populated heavily by African Americans and this made Bayard comfortable. There were a lot of successful African American doctors, lawyers, ministers, musicians, writers, and artists in Sugar Hill, which was where Bayard’s aunt lived.

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Teachers College

After he was asked to leave Wilberforce, he attended Cheney Teachers College near West Chester. But he soon grew bored there and left before earning his degree.

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Unpleasant Discovery

At Wilberforce University, Rustin discovered he was homosexual. He developed a close relationship with a young student at the university from California. At holiday vacations, the young man would go home with Rustin. Rustin described it as a “very intense, friendly relationship”.

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Valedictorian

At the end of his senior year, Rustin, because of his achievements academically, athletically, musically, and socially, he was named Valedictorian of his class in high school.

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West Chester, Pennsylvania

Bayard Rustin was here on March 17, 1910. He was raised by his grandparents.

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XXXXXXXV

When Bayard died he was 75 years old. He served as the executive director of the Philip Randolph institute (a civil rights organization) until his death in 1987. Farewell to the late Bayard Rustin.

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YCL

YCL, or the Young Communist League, who believed in Communism as it was practiced in Russia. In Russia, communism was a totalitarian type of government, in which Communism controlled all aspects of life.

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Zesty Politics

Bayard Rustin joined the young communist league because communists promised equal rights for all.

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Conclusion

Bayard Rustin life was at times Questionable and confusing, but that doesn’t take away what he did for the civil rights of African Americans and his strong determination.

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Works Cited

James Haskins, Bayard Rustin, Behind the scenes of the civil rights movement. Hyperion Books for Children, 1997.

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