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...From left: Washington March Leader Bayard Rustin, N.A.A.C.P. Attorney Jack Greenberg, National Urban League Executive Director Whitney M. Young Jr., CORE Director James Farmer, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, King, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Chairman John Lewis, Negro American Labor Council Chief A. Philip Randolph, Student Leader Courtney...
...Leaders. In the lulls between the riots, Bayard Rustin, the Negro who organized last year's Washington civil rights march, roamed through the streets, urging residents to remain at home, but he had little success. An N.A.A.C.P. official issued a pleading leaflet: "Cool it, baby, the message has been delivered!" But to the rioters, anyone who urged restraint was only an "Uncle...
Seven poems appear in the Lion Rampant, three by Bayard Chandler, a graduate student who will have a book of poetry published this fall. Chandler's writing is execrable; his use of imagery would provide budding poets with an excellent catalogue of flagrant errors to avoid. "In the Fall" abounds with trite images and mixed metaphors...
...Even if a Negro school were made academically superior," he says, "it would still be unequal, for it could not adjust the child to the context of the culture in which he lives." Galamison called in Bayard Rustin, who worked out the organization of last summer's March on Washington, to run the planned boycott...
...wildest of chance deflected Laurence into newspapering. After graduation from Harvard ('12), he earned a law degree at Boston University and went to New York. There, a well-connected Harvard classmate took him to a party at the Long Island home of Herbert Bayard Swope, publisher of the old New York World. A popular party game, "Ask Me Another," was in progress, and to the mortification of the host, who fancied himself as the reigning champion, Laurence won. "Who are you-and why?" demanded Swope of the interloper and offered him a reporter's job on the World...