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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: National Endowment for Democracy - Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. | Oct 10, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Aug 20, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Mar 13, 2026 | ||
| Revised to expand description of his role in the March on Washington, added discussion of his role in New York Times v. Sullivan, added Top Questions. | Apr 30, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CNN - Bayard Rustin, a gay civil rights leader arrested for having sex with men, is pardoned 67 years later. | Dec 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Endowment for Democracy - Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. | Oct 19, 2024 | ||
| Cross-reference and media added. | Sep 10, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: America's Black Holocaust Museum - Bayard Rustin: Unsung Architect of the Civil Rights Movement. | Aug 06, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - ?He never hid himself?: the incredible life of gay civil rights leader Bayard Rustin. | Apr 29, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Dec 12, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Museum of African American History and Culture - Bayard Rustin. | Jul 14, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - Bayard Rustin: The Man Who Organized The March On Washington. | Apr 19, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS LearningMedia - Bayard Rustin. | Mar 08, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford University - The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute - Bayard Rustin. | Oct 09, 2021 | ||
| Noted the impact his homosexuality had on his role in the civil rights movement and mentioned his 1953 arrest and posthumous pardon. | Feb 05, 2020 | ||
| Replaced photograph. | Jan 23, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: BlackPast.org - (1965) Bayard Rustin, "From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement". | Nov 03, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Park Service - Bayard Rustin. | Oct 30, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: BlackHistoryNow - Biography of Bayard Rustin. | Oct 30, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Bayard Rustin. | Apr 28, 2014 | ||
| He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013. | Nov 20, 2013 | ||
| In 2013 he was named a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. | Aug 09, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Bayard Rustin. | Jan 06, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Bayard Rustin. | Jan 06, 2011 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jan 12, 2000 |
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