Scott King saw the deficit partly as a result of who was doing the telling. At one of the first conferences of King scholars, ...

There is a familiar story of Martin Luther ... Scott King had supported the Progressive Party’s third-party challenge for the presidency, meeting Paul Robeson and Bayard Rustin.

Of that which has been written about Dr. Martin Luther ... that Bayard’s expertness and commitment in this area will be of inestimable value.” Seventeen years older than King, Rustin was ...

Bayard Rustin' exhibit at National Civil Rights Museum Last year ... and a top associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but his identity as a gay man made him a sometimes controversial figure among ...

Unpacking the logic of from's National Garden of American Heroes honoring figures from Christopher Columbus to Whitney ...

Bayard Rustin was the architect behind many of the civil rights movement’s most important victories, notably the 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I ...

Every year the nation pauses, reflects and commemorates the impact and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. In truth ... After careful planning by Bayard Rustin, the call went out across the nation ...

Stay up-to-date with the politics team. Sign up for the Teen Vogue Take There is a familiar story of Martin Luther King. It’s about the South — about segregated buses and lunch counters ...

A year after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination ... she met both the singer Paul Robeson and the activist Bayard Rustin, and heard the playwright and activist Shirley Graham (who would ...

From the Declaration to Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, and the Civil Rights Movement led by Dr. Martin Luther King ... Together, Dr. King, Coretta Scott King, Bayard Rustin, Stanley Levison ...