| Description |
vi, 568 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [539]-546) and index. |
| Awards |
Stonewall Book Award (American Library Association), 2004. |
| Contents |
"Any road will take you there," 1912-1934. -- "A young radical," 1934-1941. -- "A way of life," 1941-1943. -- "An extremely capable agitator," 1944. -- "Hard and bitter experience," 1944-1946. -- "The great gadfly which has stirred men into action," 1946-1947. -- "Mad enough to do something desperate," 1947-1948. -- "An iron lung of militarism," 1948-1952. -- "Bayard's trouble," 1952-1953. -- "I can again be useful," 1953-1955. -- "No force on Earth can stop this movement," 1955-1957. -- "More going on than most people would gather," 1957-1959. -- "An employee of others," 1959-1960. -- "Ours is not a world-shaking project," 1960-1962. -- "One of the great days in American history," 1963. -- "On the threshold of a new political movement," 1963-1964. -- "From protest to politics," 1964-1965. -- "In the shadow of war," 1965-1967. -- "A strategist without a movement," 1966-1968. -- "Freedom is never a final act," 1969-1987. |
| Summary |
In this absorbing reappraisal of Bayard Rustin's tumultuous life and times, John D'Emilio shows how Rustin became one of the most brilliant and influential strategists of the peace and civil rights movements in the 1950s, and then came to be reviled as a conservative by many leftists in the late 1960s. D'Emilio also provides a stunning account of how Rustin's homosexuality shaped his career, as his foes -- from Strom Thurmond to Adam Clayton Powell -- tried to use it to discredit his leadership and force him into the shadows. This revelatory work of biography finally restores Rustin to history in all of his complexity and humanity. |
| Subject |
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987.
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African Americans -- Biography.
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African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
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African American pacifists -- Biography.
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African American gay men -- Biography.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
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Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Homosexuality -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Homophobia -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
0684827808 |
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