| Bayard Rustin  AKA Bayard Taylor Rustin
Born: 17-Mar-1910 [1]
Birthplace: West Chester, PA
Died: 24-Aug-1987
Location of death: New York City
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Cremated
Gender: Male
Religion: Quaker
Race or Ethnicity: Black
Sexual orientation: Gay
Occupation: Activist
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Organized the 1963 March on Washington Advisor to Martin Luther King.
[1] Nanette Dobrosky (ed.), The Bayard Rustin Papers (1988). Some other sources give a birth date of 1912. This particular source was compiled from Rustin's papers in the A. Philip Randolph Institute, now at the Library of Congress.
Father: Archie Hopkins
Mother: Florence Rustin
Boyfriend: Walter Naegle (relationship ten years)
High School: West Chester High School, West Chester, PA (1928)
University: West Chester State College
University: City College of New York (no degree)
University: Wilberforce University
University: Cheyney State Teachers College
Black Americans to Support Israel Committee
Communist Party USA Young Communist League (1936)
Congress of Racial Equality Co-Founder
National Emergency Coalition for Haitian Refugees
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Tonsillectomy
Disorderly Conduct
Draft Deferment: World War II Conscientious Objector (1940)
Civil Disobedience Violating the Selective Service Act (prison 1944-46)
Solicitation Morningside Park, New York City (Oct-1946)
Loitering (Sep-1947)
Sex in Public Pasadena, CA (21-Jan-1953)
Civil Disobedience Yale University (Oct-1984)
Heart Attack (1971)
Inmate: Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary
Risk Factors: Smoking
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