Bibliography
John D’Emilio. Lost Prophet. The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2004).
Michael G. Long. Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics. (NY: New York Univ. P xx-xx)
Bayard Rustin, Devon Carbado (ed.), Don Weise (ed.). Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin. (Minn: Cleis Press, 2023)
Bayard Rustin and Michael G. Long. I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters. (San Francisco: City Lights, 2012)
Periodicals
John D’Emilio. “Before Mongomery: Bayard Rustin and the Fight for Racial Justice During World War II” in The Nation WWII Museum, New Orleans. February 26, 2021.
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/bayard-rustin-racial-justice-world-war-ii.
Shaina Destine. “Bayard Rustin: The Inmate that the Prison Could Not Handle.” In National Archives. August 16, 2016.
https://rediscovering-black-history.blogs.archives.gov/2016/08/16/bayard-rustin-the-inmate-that-the-prison-could-not-handle/.
Peter Dreier. “The Man Behind the March” in Commonweal, May 21, 2012.
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/man-behind-march.
Thaddeus Morgan. “Bayard Rustin: Why MLK’s Right-Hand Man Was Nearly Written Out of History” in History, January 2, 2024. https://www.history.com/news/bayard-rustin-march-on-washington-openly-gay-mlk.
Jerald Podair. “Meet Bayard Rustin, Often-forgotten Civil Rights Activist, Union Organizer and Man of Compassion” in Greater Diversity News. February 1, 2023.
https://greaterdiversity.com/meet-bayard-rustin-often-forgotten-civil-rights-activist-union-organizer-and-man-of-compassion/.
Cynthia Taylor. “The men behind the March: Randolph and Rustin together again” in NYU Press. August 27, 2013.
https://www.fromthesquare.org/the-men-behind-the-march-randolph-and-rustin-together-again/.
Gary Younge. “Bayard Rustin: the gay black pacifist at the heart of the March on Washington” in The Guardian, August 23, 2023. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/bayard-rustin-march-on-washington.
In this image of the leaders of the 1963 March on Washington, Bayard Rustin is noticeably absent, when, in fact, he was the major organizing force behind the march
Filmography
“Brother Outsider- the Life of Bayard Rustin” (2003)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxhKgnyWcuw
I find this a much more compelling documentary than “Rustin” because it uses actual footage and Rustin’s own voice to tell this important story.
“Rustin” (2023) a Netflix film written by Julian Breece and Dustin Lance Black about the life and times of Bayard Rustin.