“Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics” honors the gay, civil rights activist’s relentless pursuit of truth by casting a critical eye on his life and work.
While heroes fall out of the spotlight for a number of reasons, Bayard Rustin, the civil rights leader who organized the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, never fully emerged from the shadows. During his lifetime, “Mr. March on Washington,” as he was nicknamed by labor titan A. Philip Randolph, advised some of the country’s most influential thinkers on nonviolence and the power of mass protest.
In addition to his works on figures like Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King Jr. and Phyllis Fry, Long has edited and authored several others on Rustin. But, he said, with the recent collection his aim was to “step back and assess” Rustin’s legacy, rather than just describe it. While the approximately 200-page collection undoubtedly celebrates Rustin’s visionary approach and his influence on American protest culture — which can be seen, as Long points out, in recent movements like Black Lives Matter — it also attempts to turn a critical eye to his policies and career progression.
“Going back to his training and values, Quakerism really is about authenticity, openness, transparency and a search for the truth, which is something that we never really find in an absolute sense, but it’s an ideal that you reach for,” Naegle said of his deceased partner’s Quaker upbringing in Pennsylvania. “As Bayard himself would say, ‘You don’t get there, you don’t get to the truth without looking at all of the different pieces, all the different issues.
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