Resources on Bayard Rustin

Documentary Films

“Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin.” Nancy Kates/Bennett Singer, Producers/Directors. Question Why Films. Website: rustin.org

“You Donʼt Have to Ride Jim Crow!” Robin Washington, Producer. Website: robinwashington.com

Radio Broadcast: National Public Radio: “State of the Reunion “ “Who Is This Man?” www.stateofthereunion.com

Biographies, Collected Writings & Archives

Coming in March 2012: I Must Resist: Bayard Rustinʼs Life in Letters. Edited by Michael Long. Forward by Julian Bond. San Francisco: City Lights Publishers.

Anderson, Jervis. Bayard Rustin: Troubles Iʼve Seen. New York: HarperCollins. 1997.

Carbado, Devon W. and Donald Weise, Editors. Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin. San Francisco: Cleis Press. 2003.

DʼEmilio, John. Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. New York: Free Press. 2003. National Book Award Nominee.

Eucher, Charles. Nobody Turn Me Around. A Peopleʼs History of the 1963 March on Washington. Boston: Beacon Press. 2010.

Levine, Daniel. Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. 2000.

Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Bayard Rustinʼs papers are held in the Manuscript Division.

Podair, Jerald. Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer. New York: Roman and Littlefield. 2008.

Rustin, Bayard. Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin. Chicago: Quadrangle Press. 1971. Strategies for Freedom. New York: Columbia University Press. 1976.

Swarthmore College, PA. Swarthmore Libraryʼs “Peace Collection.”

Weaver, Jr., Harold, Paul Kriese, and Stephen W. Angell. Black Fire: African Ameircan Quakers on Spirituality and Human Rights. Philadelphia: Quaker Press FGC. 2011.

For Young Readers: Brimner, Larry Dane. We Are One: The Story of Bayard Rustin. Honesdale (PA): Calkins Creek, 2007. Haskins, James. Bayard Rustin: Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Hyperion. 1997. Miller, Calvin Craig. No Easy Answers: Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement . Greensboro: Morgan Reynolds Publishing. 2005.

Musical Recordings “Bayard Rustin - The Singer.” Includes Elizabethan Songs, Negro Spirituals, and Twelve Songs on the Life of Christ. Narration by James Farmer.

“Bayard Rustin Sings Spirituals, Work & Freedom Songs.” A live concert recorded in 1972.

Available from: Walter Naegle, 340 W. 28th St.- 9J, New York, NY 10001 $ 16. Check payable to: Bayard Rustin Fund, Inc.