Word: bayards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Doar, Chief of the civil rights division of the Department of Justice; Robert F. Drinan, S. J., dean of the Boston College School of Law; Marian Elizabeth Wright, Legal Defense Fund attorney in Jackson, Miss.; and Bayard Rustin, organizer of the 1963 march of Washington, will also speak...
...Bayard Rustin's short, somewhat muddled article is the least interesting in the issue. Admitting that the civil rights movement has won only token victories against social and economic barriers to "genuine freedom"--"a handful of jobs here, a few school pairings there,"--he calls for planning across class lines and state lines. And he doesn't stop there: "I am more and more in favor of abolition of the states altogether...
...small number--estimated at a maximum of 8,000. Then they talk as if rioting consumed the passions of a vast proportion of New York's Negroes. It did not. Significantly, those who rioted were primarily youths, and they cared little for their community's leaders. They booed Bayard Rustin as he tried to pull them off the streets; they did the same to James Farmer as he belatedly asked for responsibility...
...fuses idealism and politics in a unique way--thrusting the civil rights movement into partisan politics without compromising principles. When Bayard Rustin suggested at a staff meeting during the Democratic Convention that the movement had shifted from the moral sphere into the political sphere, where it would have to accept compromises, Moses disagreed. "We came to the convention not to inject politics into civil rights, but to inject rights into politics," he said. The compromise was rejected...
...Bayard Rustin discusses the political attitude of the Negro. We are "moving from an early protest movement into the political structure," he begins. "A protest movement requires an attitude of suffering, of absolutism, of vindication. A political movement requires compromise. Mississippi has showed you that political action is what we need. We should have sent the dixiecrats home and stayed and voted...