Video & Audio
Documentary: Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin.
Feature film: Rustin.
Interview with the director of Rustin, George C. Wolfe, on MSNBC: The man behind the March on Washington.
Interview with Walter Naegle (Rustin’s partner).
Making Gay History podcast episode on Bayard Rustin.
NPR: Remembering Bayard Rustin: The Man Behind the March on Washington.
Primary Sources
Bayard Rustin (audio & video):
- Reading the demands at the March on Washington (audio).
- Debate with Malcolm X (audio.) See a short video clip here.
- In discussion with Malcolm on a radio broadcast (audio).
- Interview with Bayard Rustin conducted in 1979 for America, They Loved You Madly, a precursor to Eyes on the Prize.
- 1982 interview about Vietnam (video).
Bayard Rustin (writings):
- A Report on Twenty-Two Days on the Chain Gang.
- The Meaning of the March on Washington.
- “Black Power” & Coalition Politics.
- From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement.
- March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom: Newsletter #2.
- Rustin with Carl Gershman: Africa, Soviet Imperialism, and the Retreat of American Power.
- Martin Luther King’s Views on Gay People.
- The King to Come: The holiday and the future racial agenda.
Books
Jervis Anderson: Bayard Rustin: Troubles I’ve Seen.
John D’Emilio: Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin.
Michael G. Long (editor): Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics.
Jerald Podair: Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer.
Bayard Rustin:
- Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin.
- I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters.
Children’s Books
Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, Michael G. Long: Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the March on Washington.
Bea Jackson & Michael G. Long: Unstoppable: How Bayard Rustin Organized the 1963 March on Washington.
Byron McCray, Rob Sanders, & Carole Boston Weatherford: A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington.
Articles
Black Past: Bayard Rustin entry.
Lynn Burnett: The Montgomery Bus Boycott: The Full Story.
Nancy Cutler: Bayard Rustin Way: Nyack street named for ‘out and proud’ civil rights legacy.
Mark E. Dixon: Bayard Rustin’s Civil Rights Legacy Began with Grandmother Julia Rustin.
Robert Drayton: The partner of the gay Civil Rights activist and organizer of the March on Washington shares his side of the story.
Kerry Eleveld: Obama, Bayard Rustin, and the New LGBT Civil-Rights Movement.
Fellowship of Reconciliation: Bayard Rustin Posthumously Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama.
Nishani Frazier: The FBI and the Mischaracterization of Bayard Rustin.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Who Designed the March on Washington?
MLK Institute profile.
Thaddeus Morgan: Why MLK’s Right-Hand Man, Bayard Rustin, Was Nearly Written Out of History.
NPR: In Newly Found Audio, A Forgotten Civil Rights Leader Says Coming Out ‘Was An Absolute Necessity’.
Daniel Perlstein: The dead end of despair: Bayard Rustin, the 1968 New York school crisis, and the struggle for racial justice.
Prison Culture: Bayard Rustin, the First ‘Freedom Rides,’ and Prison.
Quaker Info profile of Rustin.
Robert Samuels: For Bayard Rustin’s partner, an effort to preserve legacy.
SNCC Digital: Profile of Bayard Rustin, with original documents.
Don Thompson: California pardons gay civil rights leader in new initiative.
Denise Oliver Velez: In Memorium: Brother Bayard.
The Washington Post: Obituary of Bayard Rustin.
Wikipedia: Bayard Rustin entry.
See Also:
Resources on the March on Washington Movement, 1941-1946.
Resources on the 1963 March on Washington.