The life and legacy of BAYARD RUSTIN - Book-signing, talk and birthday celebration!

Come celebrate and honor the life and legacy of

Bayard Rustin

Book-signing, talk and birthday celebration!

Rustin was a master strategist and tireless activist who brought Gandhi’s protest techniques to the American civil rights movement. Despite his accomplishments, he was silenced, threatened, arrested, beaten, imprisoned and fired from important leadership positions, largely because he was an openly gay man in a fiercely homophobic era.

A recent book, I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters, was published in March on the centennial of Rustin’s birth, and presents more than 150 eloquent and impassioned letters to major progressives of his day. Michael J. Long, editor of the book, will give a talk highlighting the Quaker roots of Rustin’s resistance. Rustin’s surviving partner Walter Naegle will also be present.

The Watchung Booksellers will be on site with copies of the book for Mr. Long to sign.

This program is part of the 80^th anniversary celebration of the Montclair Friends Meetinghouse. The public is invited, so come celebrate with us!