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Bayard Rustin: The Invisible Activist

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Saturday, May 9th 2015

6:00 pm

Free School Classroom

"We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers." --Bayard Rustin Y'all! There's a new book on Bayard Rustin, and it's aimed at young readers! And, the authors just happen to be passing through Baltimore and have agreed to stop at Red Emma's to discuss their book and Rustin's incredible, still-all-too-forgotten life and work. Don't miss this opportunity, and please bring the young folks in your life! The event starts at 6PM, to accommodate the schedules of our younger participants.

About the event: Jacqueline Houtman and Walter Naegle, authors of Bayard Rustin: The Invisible Activist (2014 QuakerPress of Friends General Conference), will present a program on the life of Bayard Rustin (1912–1987)—an African American Quaker, pacifist, teacher, organizer, advisor, gay man, and one of the most important, and least known, activists of the civil rights movement. An advisor to the Martin Luther King, Jr., he promoted nonviolent resistance, participated in one of the first Freedom Rides, organized the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and worked tirelessly for marginalized communities at home and abroad. As an openly gay African American, Bayard Rustin stood at the intersection of many of the struggles for equal rights. Walter Naegle is Bayard’s former partner and Jacqueline Houtman is a children’s author. In 2013, on Bayard Rustin’s behalf, Walter Naegle received the posthumous Medal of Freedom Award from Barack Obama.

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