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MLK Weekend Honors Bayard Rustin
Submitted by E. Ross on Monday, 12 January 2009 – 2:31 PMNo Comment
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Organizing Weekend in Honor of Bayard Rustin, on January 16-19, is a national student-led action focusing on the coalition-building strategies that Bayard Rustin used to help activists, including Martin Luther King Jr., to create social change.
A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the famous 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States.
The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) hopes that students, Gay-Straight Alliances and other student clubs, and community groups involved in the safe schools movement will use this Day of Action to build bridges and work together with other social justice movements.
They also encourage GSA’s to host a screening of “Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin,” to support another student club’s MLK event, or to write a letter to President-elect Obama telling him what you would like to see in the next 4 years in regards to safer schools and social justice.
Learn more about Rustin’s legacy as a gay man active in the civil rights movement of the 1950’s and 1960’s by viewing this video, excerpted from the film Out of the Past:
