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Bayard Rustin
Jerald E. Podair
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Description for Bayard Rustin
Hardback. Series: The African American History Series. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 16. Weight in Grams: 435.
Bayard Rustin was a unique twentieth-century American radical voice. A homosexual, World War II draft resister, and ex-communist, he made enormous contributions to the civil rights, socialist, labor, peace, and gay rights movements in the United States, despite being viewed as an "outsider" even by fellow activists. Rustin was a humanist who championed the disadvantaged and oppressed, regardless of identity. In Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer, Jerald Podair examines the life and career of a man who shaped virtually every aspect of the modern civil rights movement as a theorist, strategist, and spokesman. Podair begins by covering the period ... Read more
Bayard Rustin was a unique twentieth-century American radical voice. A homosexual, World War II draft resister, and ex-communist, he made enormous contributions to the civil rights, socialist, labor, peace, and gay rights movements in the United States, despite being viewed as an "outsider" even by fellow activists. Rustin was a humanist who championed the disadvantaged and oppressed, regardless of identity. In Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer, Jerald Podair examines the life and career of a man who shaped virtually every aspect of the modern civil rights movement as a theorist, strategist, and spokesman. Podair begins by covering the period ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Series
The African American History Series
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742545137
SKU
V9780742545137
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About Jerald E. Podair
Jerald Podair is associate professor of history and the Robert French Professor of American Studies at Lawrence University.
Reviews for Bayard Rustin
Jerald Podair's lively engaging portrait of a key organizer in the freedom struggle puts Bayard Rustin's behind-the-scenes work out front for a new generation. Illuminating Rustin's struggle to make real America's promise of 'equality and justice for all,' Podair pushes an unsung hero out of the shadows. His work, at once scholarly and widely accessible, adds a biographer's depth to ... Read more