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Bayard Rustin : troubles I've seen : a biography / Jervis Anderson.
LIBRA E185.97.R93 A53 1998
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anderson, Jervis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987.
- Rustin, Bayard.
- African Americans--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.
- Civil rights workers.
- African American civil rights workers--Biography.
- African American civil rights workers.
- African American pacifists--Biography.
- African American pacifists.
- African American gay men--Biography.
- African American gay men.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- Nonviolence--United States--History--20th century.
- Nonviolence.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 418 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- Rustin, Gayard, 1912-1987. 2. Afro American Biography 3. Civil rights workers United States Biography. 4. Pacifists United States Biography. 5. Afro Americans - Civil rights. 7. Nonviolence United States History - 20th Century.
- Contents:
- 1. "That was Bayard"
- Beginnings
- Toward New York
- In fellowship
- 2. On the road
- Conscience and consequence
- Journey of reconciliation
- "Rustiji"
- A passage to Africa
- 3. Fallen angel
- Beginning again
- 4. Mission to Montgomery
- Advising the prince
- Radical jet-setter
- Exile from the kingdom
- The march on Washington
- What follows?
- 5. "From protest to politics"
- Guns and butter and Vietnam
- Advice and dissent
- 6. Standing fast: against separatism
- Standing fast: for labor and Jewry
- Turn to human rights abroad
- The aesthete and collector
- "Swing low, sweet Chariot."
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, ©1997.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.
- ISBN:
- 0520214188
- 9780520214187
- OCLC:
- 37567211
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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