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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 3,132,824 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Bayard Rustin is the 525th most popular social activist (down from 432nd in 2019), the 10,356th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,775th in 2019) and the 84th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Bayard Rustin ranks 525 out of 538. Before him are Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Yolanda King, Hu Jia, Miriam Rodríguez Martínez, Emily Davies, and Robert Emmet. After him are Harry Hay, Mario Savio, Ales Bialiatski, Elizaveta Glinka, Jared Taylor, and Albertina Sisulu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Bayard Rustin ranks 338. Before him are Zoltán Várkonyi, James Algar, Ettore Giannini, Jan Brzák-Felix, Anna J. Harrison, and Federico Saiz. After him are Harry Hay, Carmen Barth, Wendy Barrie, Elizaveta Mukasei, Art Mollner, and Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein. Among people deceased in 1987, Bayard Rustin ranks 224. Before him are Madge Kennedy, Joan Greenwood, Heinz Vollmar, Viola Dana, José González Ganoza, and Honorino Landa. After him are Ernő Goldfinger, Antony Tudor, Clare Boothe Luce, Errol Barrow, Silvio Pietroboni, and Alice Terry.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bayard Rustin ranks 10,356 out of 18,182. Before him are Ralph Sampson (1960), Adam Jones (1965), Michael Aschbacher (1944), Paul Buchheit (1977), Theo Rossi (1975), and Lorraine Hansberry (1930). After him are Edwin Lord Weeks (1849), James Truslow Adams (1878), Willa Holland (1991), Julia Jones (1981), Marcia Neugebauer (1932), and Mike Gravel (1930).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Bayard Rustin ranks 84. Before him are Lillian Wald (1867), Aaron Swartz (1986), Dorothea Dix (1802), Dolores Huerta (1930), Frances Willard (1839), and Yolanda King (1955). After him are Mario Savio (1942), Roger Stone (1952), Frank Kameny (1925), Rachel Corrie (1979), Lucy Burns (1879), and Mary McLeod Bethune (1875).

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