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I must resist : Bayard Rustin's life in letters / introduced and edited by Michael G. Long ; foreword by Julian Bond.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987--Correspondence.
- Rustin, Bayard.
- African American civil rights workers--Correspondence.
- African American civil rights workers.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century--Sources.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century--Sources.
- Civil rights movements.
- Civil rights workers--United States--Correspondence.
- Civil rights workers.
- Nonviolence--United States--History--20th century--Sources.
- Nonviolence.
- Social justice--United States--History--20th century--Sources.
- Social justice.
- United States--Race relations--History--20th century--Sources.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (545 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- 2012.
- San Francisco : City Lights Books, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bayard Rustin's life story told in his own words through his intimate correspondence, published on the centennial of his birth.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword by Julian Bond; Introduction: Resisting the Shadows by Michael G. Long; A Note on the Text; 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" 1953-195510. "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; NOTES
- LOCATION OF LETTERSACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780872865617
- 0872865614
- OCLC:
- 801363813
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