Reminiscences of Bayard Rustin, 1987.

Biographical Note

Civil rights worker

Scope and Contents

Childhood & World War I period, Pennsylvania; education, Wilberforce University, Teachers College, City College of New York; discrimination within trade union movement; black nationalism; Fellowship of Reconciliation, World War II; experiences in prison, 1943-45; penal reform; Congress of Racial Equality protests, Freedom Ride; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; rivalry between Martin Luther King Jr. and Roy Watkins; A. Philip Randolph and the labor movement; Montogomery bus protest; work with Martin Luther King in organization of Southern Christian Leadership Conference; recollections of Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee; black protests at National Democratic Convention, 1960; A.P. Randolph and the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO); March on Washington, 1963; Martin Luther King's assasination; genesis of A.P. Randolph Institute; improving employment situation of blacks; Voting Rights Act; social decline in America; South African anti-apartheid movement; communism and factionism in South African government and tribal groups; views on divestment, disinvestment, Reagan administration policies on South Africa; 1987 elections in South Africa. Impressions of: A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

Subjects

• African American labor union members.
• African Americans--Civil rights.
• African Americans--Segregation.
• African Americans--Social conditions.
• American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)
• Civil rights--United States.
• Civil rights workers--Interviews.
• Congress of Racial Equality.
• Edwin, Ed, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Prison discipline.
• Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979.
• Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987--Interviews.
• South Africa--Foreign relations--United States.
• South Africa--Race relations.
• South Africa--Social conditions.
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
• United States--Foreign relations--South Africa.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.

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