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Bayard Rustin at New York headquarters of the 1963 March on Washington, located at 170 West 130th Street in Harlem. AP/WIDE WORLD.
Bayard Rustin at anti-war demonstration in Washington, DC, 1940s. COURTESY ESTATE OF BAYARD RUSTIN.
Bayard Rustin with football teammates at West Chester High School in West Chester, PA, circa 1928. In 2006, the school was renamed Bayard Rustin High School to honor Rustin’s legacy. COURTESY RUSTIN HIGH SCHOOL.
Bayard Rustin at a lake in upstate New York, early 1970s. COURTESY ESTATE OF BAYARD RUSTIN.
Walter Naegle, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and Bennett Singer at 2013 Medal of Freedom Ceremony. Naegle, who was Bayard Rustin’s life partner, accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom that President Obama awarded posthumously to Rustin at a White House ceremony on November 20, 2013. PUBLIC DOMAIN
Bennett Singer, one of the directors of "Brother, Outsider." ERIKA CHRISTIE.
Bayard Rustin giving a talk on the philosophy of nonviolence, 1940s. COURTESY ESTATE OF BAYARD RUSTIN.
Bayard Rustin, Mrs. Bowen Jackson, and Mrs. Earl Williams picket Ford Theatre in Baltimore Maryland, 1948. NAACP COLLECTION / LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.
Bayard Rustin delivering the official demands at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963. BETTMANN ARCHIVE.
Washington Monument and reflecting pool at National Mall on August 28, 1963, the day of the March on Washington. NATIONAL ARCHIVES.
Official program from 1963 March on Washington.
Bayard Rustin in Trafalgar Square, London, 1983. WALTER NAEGLE.
Walter Naegle, Bayard Rustin's life partner.
March on Washington leaflet. PUBLIC DOMAIN
