He recorded an album of spirituals and (believe it or not) Elizabethan songs – the same Bayard Rustin whose involvement in non-violent protests got him beaten. He was arrested more than 20 times ...

Bayard Rustin, a Native Son who died in 1987 ... or making out in parked cars In 1953, police officers arrested Rustin on “moral charges” for having sex with another man in a parked car ...

By Tiffany Martinbrough As an adolescent, Bayard Rustin had many virtues ... Walter Naegle, told me, and Rustin was arrested and beaten as a result. Rustin was open, both in the way he fought ...

Bayard Rustin was an unsung hero of the civil rights ... calling him a "sexual pervert" and bringing national media attention to his 1953 arrest for having sex with two men in a parked car.

Raised by his Quaker grandmother in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Bayard Rustin was born in 1912 into a multiracial community. He was first arrested when he was in high school for attempting to ...

When Did Bayard Rustin Die? He died in 1987 of cardiac arrest, at age 75, after returning from a humanitarian aid mission in Haiti, according to the Washington Post. His New York Times obituary ...

TORONTO, ONT – Bayard Rustin, the civil rights activist and ... once spent 22 days on a North Carolina chain gang after being arrested on one ride. He was a central planner of the 1955-1956 ...

African American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin (1912–1987 ... of somebody who was edgy and radical and willing to get arrested and go to jail for the cause.” “Now that we’re 36 ...

“There’s a line in the film which Bayard uses called ‘the suffocating ... a segregationist senator from South Carolina, exposes Rustin’s arrest in 1953 when he was found having sex with ...

A new film finally spotlights Bayard Rustin, the gay civil rights ... Nonetheless, both requests were temporarily granted. Rustin's 1944 mugshot Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Rustin ...