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Author Levine, Daniel, 1934-

Title Bayard Rustin and the civil rights movement / Daniel Levine
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2000]
©2000

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Description xii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Preparation, Personal and Political -- 2. Nonviolent Direct Action -- 3. Prison -- 4. After Prison, to Prison -- 5. Crash -- 6. Must Converge -- 7. From the "Spirit of Montgomery" to SCLC's First Campaign -- 8. Marching, Marching -- 9. Serving Two Masters -- 10. Convergence -- 11. Transitioning -- 12. From Protest to Politics -- 13. Increasing Isolation -- 14. The 1970s: No Place Left to Stand -- 15. Grand Old Man - and a New Civil Right -- 16. Sui Generis
Summary "Daniel Levine has written the first scholarly biography that examines Rustin's public as well as private persona in light of his struggles as a gay black man and as an activist who followed his own principles and convictions."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987.
African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
African American gay men -- Biography.
African American pacifists -- Biography.
African American pacifists -- United States -- Biography.
African Americans -- Biography.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 99034245
ISBN 081352718X (cloth : alk. paper)