Caption: Bayard Rustin, half-length portrait, facing front, microphones in foreground Credit: Library of Congress Sixty-two years ago, a quarter of a million people gathered for the March on ...

Bayard Rustin developed his philosophy of non-violence through his study of Gandhi and Quaker religious beliefs. When he met Martin Luther King Jr., he brought that philosophy to the Civil Rights ...

Over the course of a 75-year life that ended in 1987, Bayard Rustin had been a member — by choice or by circumstance — of more disfavored societal groups than the average ego is capable of keeping ...