Monday, January 16, 2012

Black History Month Series: Remembering Bayard Rustin- Paying Homage

 If it wasn't for Bayard there would be no Martin Luther King as we know and LOVE him...a salute to Bayard Rustin.

SO AM I celebrates your greatness and your part in the civil rights movement!!!!

Thank you...

http://www.npr.org/2011/02/03/133467045/Black-History-Month-Series-Remembering-Baynard-Rustin

http://www.quakerinfo.com/quak_br.shtml


Bayard Rustin
Civil Rights Leader

by Buzz Haughton
Originally published February 1, 1999 at Suite101.com

[Buzz Haughton is a librarian at Shields Library, University of California, Davis. He is also a member of Davis Monthly Meeting in Pacific Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). This article appeared in print in the Fall 1999 issue of Quaker Studies and in 2000 in Afro-Americans in New York Life and History. It appears here by permission of the author.]

[Photo of Bayard Rustin]

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