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Time on two crosses : the collected writings of Bayard Rustin / edited by Devon W. Carbado and Donald Weise ; foreword by Barack Obama ; afterword by Barny Frank.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- History.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- Social justice.
- Nonviolence.
- United States.
- Nonviolence--United States--History--20th century.
- Social justice--United States--History--20th century.
- United States--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- United States--Social conditions--20th century.
- Social conditions.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xliv, 355 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cleis Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- In 1956 Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr. strategies of nonviolence during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, thereby launching the civil rights movement. Widely acclaimed as a founding father of modern black protest, Rustin reached international notoriety in 1963 as the openly gay organizer of the March on Washington. Long before the March on Washington, Rustin's leadership placed him at the vanguard of social protest. His gay identity, however, became a point of contention with the movement, with the controversy embroiling even King himself. Time on Two Crosses offers an insider's view of many of the defining political moments of our time. From Gandhi's impact on African Americans, white supremacists in Congress, and the assassination of Malcolm X to Rustin's never-before-published essays on Louis Farrakhan, affirmative action, and the call for gay rights, Time on Two Crosses chronicles five decades of Rustin's commitment to justice and equality.
- Contents:
- Foreword by Barack Obama
- A word from Walter Naegle
- Introduction
- pt. 1. The making of a movement
- Nonviolence vs. Jim Crow (1942)
- The Negro and nonviolence (1942)
- Letter to the draft board (1943)
- We challenged Jim Crow (1947)
- Civil disobedience, Jim Crow, and the Armed Forces (1948)
- Twenty-two days on a chain gang (1949)
- Montgomery diary (1956)
- Fear in the Delta (1956)
- New South...old politics (1956)
- Even in the face of death (1957)
- pt. 2. The politics of protest
- The meaning of Birmingham (1963)
- Preamble to the March on Washington (1963)
- From protest to politics: the future of the Civil Rights Movement (1964)
- Some lessons from Watts (1965)
- The mind of the Black militant (1967)
- Guns, bread, and butter (1967)
- The anatomy of frustration (1968)
- No more guns (1969)
- pt. 3. African American leadership
- Bayard Rustin meets Malcolm X (1960)
- Making his mark: The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965
- In defense of Muhammad Ali (1967)
- Dr. King's painful dilemma (1967)
- Reflections on the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968)
- The total vision of A. Philip Randolph (1969)
- Eldridge Cleaver and the democratic idea (1976)
- A Black presidential candidacy? (1983)
- The curious case of Louis Farrakhan (1985)
- pt. 4. Equality beyond race
- The myth of Black Studies (1969)
- The failure of Black separatism (1970)
- Feminism and equality (1970)
- The Blacks and the unions (1971)
- Black women and women's liberation (1972)
- Affirmative action in an economy of scarcity (1974)
- Civil rights and uncivil wrongs (1982)
- Civil rights: twenty years later (1983)
- pt. 5. Gay rights
- From Montgomery to Stonewall (1986)
- The new "niggers" are gays (1986)
- Brother to brother: an interview with Joseph Beam (1986)
- Black and gay in the Civil Rights Movement: an interview with Open Hands (1987)
- Martin Luther King's view on gay people (1987
- The importance of gay rights legislation (1987)
- Time on two crosses: an interview with George Chauncey, Jr. (1987)
- pt. 6. Equality beyond America
- African revolution (1958)
- How Black Americans see Black Africans - and vice versa (1969)
- American Negros and Israel (1974)
- A U.S. coalition on human rights (1977)
- The war against Zimbabwe (1979)
- A way out: solutions for South Africa (1983)
- Afterword by Barney Frank
- Bibliography
- About the editors.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Lambda Literary Awards - LGBT Studies, Winner, 2004
- ISBN:
- 1627781269
- 9781627781268
- 9781627781268 (pbk.)
- OCLC:
- 904856466
- Publisher Number:
- 99962790982
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