Word: bayards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Budget is the economic flower of the old civil rights movement. It is outlined in an 84-page red, white, and blue pamphlet entitled "Budgeting our resources, 1966-1975, to achieve Freedom from Want." The study was directed by Bayard Rustin, executive director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute and organizer of the red, white, and blue 1963 March on Washington...
...Anselm's Episcopal Chapel in Nashville, Tenn., observed: "Most people were surprised. They feel she was a pretty lucky girl to get such a promising young man. I feel that way too." At the A. Philip Randolph Institute in New York City, headquarters of the intellectual Bayard Rustin, the comment for publication was "mazel tov." Institute staffers also parodied more militant Negroes by remarking: "Tokenism again! She only married one Negro...
...killing, of subversion, and it would be realistic to expect such experts of mines and booby traps to find good reason why they should use these skills and risk their lives against the enemy of personal injustice as they did against the enemy of Communist aggression." Negro Leader Bayard Rustin has a more constructive view: "As the students of 1960 were in the forefront of the civil rights movement back then, the Negro G.I. will be in the forefront of the next phase...
...Left is determined not to cooperate with groups that have even slightly bowed to the status quo. When Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin suggested that the New Left shift from protest to coalition politics and work with labor and liberals, he was berated as a cop-out who was threatening its moral purity. Michael Harrington, who put poverty on the map in his book The Other America, is now similarly denounced; he calls the New Leftists "mystical militants...
...Bayard Rustin, who organized the successful March on Washington, voiced a disappointment felt by many Negroes. "There is not going to be a tremendous rush of Negroes into the peace movement," said Rustin. In fact, many Negroes have found service in Viet Nam valuable in proving their courage-a quantity whose fierce abundance has never before been tapped in American armed combat quite so effectively...