tyrus78
August 24, 2019
August 24, 1987: On this day, the world lost a great advocate of civil and gay rights in Bayard Rustin. Bayard Rustin was one of the most important, and yet least known, Civil Rights advocates in the twentieth century. He was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania on March 17, 1912 and raised by his maternal grandparents. His grandmother, Julia, was both a Quaker and an active member of the...