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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: D'Emilio, John. Lost prophet. New York : Free Press, c2003 (OCoLC)606983955 Online version: D'Emilio, John. Lost prophet. New York : Free Press, c2003 (OCoLC)608523441 |
| Named Person: | Bayard Rustin; Bayard Rustin |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John D'Emilio |
| ISBN: | 0684827808 9780684827803 |
| OCLC Number: | 52269914 |
| Awards: | National Book Award Finalist, Nonfiction, 2003 |
| Description: | vi, 568 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | "Any road will take you there," 1912-1934. -- "A young radical," 1934-1941. -- "A way of life," 1941-1943. -- "An extremely capable agitator," 1944. -- "Hard and bitter experience," 1944-1946. -- "The gadfly which has stirred men into action," 1946-1947. -- "Mad enough to do something desperate," 1947-1948. -- "An iron lung of militarism," 1948-1952. -- "Bayard's trouble," 1952-1953. -- "I can again be useful," 1953-1955. -- "No force on Earth can stop this movement," 1955-1957. -- "More going on than most people would gather," 1957-1959. -- "An employee of others," 1959-1960. -- "Ours is not a world-shaking project," 1960-1962. -- "One of the great days in American history," 1963. -- "On the threshold of a new political movement," 1963-1964. -- "From protest to politics," 1964-1965. -- "In the shadow of war," 1965-1967. -- "A strategist without a movement," 1966-1968. -- "Freedom is never a final act," 1969-1987. |
| Other Titles: | Life and times of Bayard Rustin |
| Responsibility: | John D'Emilio. |
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Abstract:
Examines the life of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights activist who organized the 1963 March on Washington, detailing his struggles as being openly gay and his campaigns for civil rights.
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