| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 516 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
Presents the life and accomplishments of the nonviolent civil rights activist who organized the 1963 March on Washington through a collection of over one hundred fifty of his letters. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. "War is wrong": 1942-1944 -- 2. "One ought to resist the entire system": March-August 1944 -- 3. "I am a traitor": August-December 1944 -- 4. "Until every effort is made, I am less than a man": January-August 1945 -- 5. "I am needed on the outside": November 1945-June 1946 -- 6. "A small, interracial, disciplined group ... to test Jim Crow": July 1946-December 1947 -- 7. "To fight for the United States Army is to fight for bigotry": 1948-1949 -- 8. "Let us resist with our whole beings": 1950-1952 -- 9. "For me sex must be sublimated": 1953-1955 -- 10. "This is an effort to avoid war, race war": 1956-1957 -- 11. "Crisis is at hand for civil rights" and Africa, 1958-1959 -- 12. "Bayard was crushed": 1960-1962 -- 13. "An enormous success": 1963 -- 14. "A very central figure in the civil rights movement": 1964-1965 -- 15. "The freedom budget for all Americans": 1966-1967 -- 16. "A fantastic vacuum": 1968-1969 -- 17. "More black than Cleaver": 1970-1975 -- 18. "These people, Mr. President, desperately need our help": 1976-1979 -- 19. "Instead of a march": 1980-1983 -- 20. "Bayard Rustin, oh, what a life!": 1984-1987. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 -- Correspondence.
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Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjxqm4FTjyPPVQmk7WVYP |
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Civil rights workers -- United States -- Correspondence.
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African American civil rights workers -- Correspondence.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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Social justice -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. |
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African American civil rights workers |
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African Americans -- Civil rights |
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Civil rights movements |
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Civil rights workers |
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Nonviolence |
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Race relations |
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Social justice |
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United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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Personal correspondence
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Sources
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| Added Author |
Long, Michael G., writer of introduction, editor.
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Bond, Julian, 1940-2015, writer of foreword. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvmHMkDvJmCHpVY8Gbcfq
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987. I must resist. San Francisco : City Lights Books, ©2012 9780872865785 (DLC) 2011051229 (OCoLC)756581388 |
| ISBN |
9780872865617 (eBook) |
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0872865614 (eBook) |
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9780872865785 |
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0872865789 |
| Standard No. |
40020695910 |
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