Bayard Rustin - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Bayard Rustin Index / People Transcripts Joe Solmonese ...up into the imagery of people like Bayard Rustin and other civil rights icons, some o... Azizullah Royesh ...about Malcolm X. I learned about Bayard Rustin , about Rosa Parks. And that was ne... ...2005 or 2006 that I got introduced to Bayard Rustin . I learned about one of the words tha... ...civil rights movement. How did you meet Bayard Rustin ? I have to ask that question first... ...nothing is impossible. Then it comes to Bayard Rustin as well, that I will tell you. I... ...at that time, I didn't know about Bayard Rustin . In 2005, because I was following al... ...he was the person who introduced me to Bayard Rustin . I don't know, because I don'... Show more... James Clyburn ...that he had refused A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin , Roy Wilkins, all these people wh... Mandy Carter ...that's the first time I heard the name Bayard Rustin . I had to go to a Quaker schoo... ...the schoolbooks didn't ever talk about Bayard Rustin —of course, Vietnam, post-Vietnam. Bu... ...We had these wonderful pins of what the Bayard Rustin stamp could look like, and I gave on... ...as the national coordinator of the Bayard Rustin Commemoration Project, and thi... ...President Obama posthumously awarding Bayard Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an... ...1963.” And when he said the words “ Bayard Rustin ,” I burst into tears. I thought, Loo... Show more... Related Topics go to the Obama in the Senate Obama in the Senate go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Russia Russia go to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Nuclear Nonproliferation go to the Veterans Veterans