SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Bayard Rustin

1912 - 1987

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Bayard Rustin ( BY-ərd; March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an American political activist, a prominent leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. Rustin was the principal organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. Rustin worked in 1941 with A. Philip Randolph on the March on Washington Movement to press for an end to racial discrimination in the military and defense employment. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bayard Rustin has received more than 3,377,853 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Bayard Rustin is the 395th most popular social activist (up from 525th in 2019), the 4,817th most popular biography from United States (up from 10,333rd in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Bayard Rustin ranks 395 out of 840. Before him are Chen Qimei, Madan Lal Dhingra, Micaela Bastidas, Huey P. Newton, Deniz Gezmiş, and Nasrin Sotoudeh. After him are Evelyn Mase, Inge Scholl, James Guillaume, Kamala Nehru, Venetia Burney, and William Howard Russell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Bayard Rustin ranks 200. Before him are Ernst Lehner, Winthrop Rockefeller, Khalid Bakdash, Luiz Gonzaga, Nihat Erim, and Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg. After him are John Frost, Northrop Frye, Barbara Hutton, Kulyash Baiseitova, Vlastimil Kopecký, and Carvalho Leite. Among people deceased in 1987, Bayard Rustin ranks 138. Before him are James Tiptree Jr., Fatemeh Pahlavi, Johan Otto von Spreckelsen, Aldo Boffi, Jacob Taubes, and Viktor Nekrasov. After him are Chögyam Trungpa, Yūjirō Ishihara, Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Woody Herman, James Coco, and Ethel Catherwood.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bayard Rustin ranks 4,817 out of 20,380. Before him are John Hay (1838), Kelly Hu (1968), Hal Clement (1922), Angelica Singleton Van Buren (1818), Marilyn French (1929), and Cyrus McCormick (1809). After him are Tom Noonan (1951), Paul Scheuring (1968), Jeffrey Katzenberg (1950), Sam Jaffe (1891), William Sanderson (1944), and Stephen Collins (1947).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Bayard Rustin ranks 46. Before him are Lucretia Mott (1793), Marsha P. Johnson (1945), Otto Warmbier (1994), Claudette Colvin (1939), Alice Paul (1885), and Huey P. Newton (1942). After him are Catharine MacKinnon (1946), Mathew Brady (1822), Louise Bryant (1885), Mary Edwards Walker (1832), Samantha Smith (1972), and Eugene V. Debs (1855).

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