Bayard Rustin: Still Speaking Truth to Power

Bayard Rustin: Still Speaking Truth to Power

A high-impact exhibition on the civil rights activist—who orchestrated the 1963 March on Washington—opens at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis.

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Victor Green Guides Swann To Success - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

NEW YORK CITY — Swann Galleries’ Printed & Manuscript African Americana auction, conducted on March 20, presented 403 lots of material related to American civil rights leaders, photographs and other ephemera documenting the era of Black enslavement and other important artifacts of Black history in America. At the top of the sale was a spring 1958 edition of Victor Green’s indispensable The Negro Travelers’ Green Book, published in New York with …

A high-impact exhibition on the civil rights activist – who orchestrated the 1963 march on Washington – opened at the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis. In 1949, a five-part series in the New York Post, entitled "22 Days on a Channel Gang", convincingly documented the [...]