The Life of Bayard RustinBlack, Queer, Civil Rights Activist
Film Screening, followed by discussion with Faculty
Friday, February 27
12:00 - 2:30pm @ Villard Room
free pizza lunch - with vegan options!
A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. He brought Gandhi's protest techniques to the American civil rights movement, and helped mold Martin Luther King, Jr. into an international symbol of peace and nonviolence.
Despite all these achievements, Rustin was silenced, threatened, arrested, beaten, imprisoned and fired from important leadership positions, largely because he was an openly gay man in a fiercely homophobic era.
Sponsored by the Campus Life ALANA and LGBTQ Resource Centers.
Film Screening, followed by discussion with Faculty
Friday, February 27
12:00 - 2:30pm @ Villard Room
free pizza lunch - with vegan options!
A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. He brought Gandhi's protest techniques to the American civil rights movement, and helped mold Martin Luther King, Jr. into an international symbol of peace and nonviolence.
Despite all these achievements, Rustin was silenced, threatened, arrested, beaten, imprisoned and fired from important leadership positions, largely because he was an openly gay man in a fiercely homophobic era.
Sponsored by the Campus Life ALANA and LGBTQ Resource Centers.
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