As a civil rights leader and an advocate for justice, Bayard Rustin was no stranger to being behind bars. He was arrested for his anti-war efforts in opposition to World War II. He was arrested ...

But the arrest remained a stain on his record ... I thank those who are advocating for Mr. Bayard Rustin’s pardon.” Wiener came up with the idea over a breakfast with longtime LGBTQ activist ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

Colman Domingo plays Bayard Rustin in the film ... imprisoned as a conscientious objector during World War II and was arrested during protests at least 25 times. He is credited with pulling ...