August 28 - Remembering Bayard Rustin

Labor History in 2:00 · Aug 28, 2026 · 1m

On this day in Labor History the year was 1963.

That was the day one of the most important stands for justice and equality took place in United States history.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream Speech” to a quarter-million people in Washington D.C.

But did you know that one of the main organizers for the march was a man by the name of Bayard Rustin?

Rustin is often left out of the history books because he was gay and because of earlier communist affiliations.

He was born in 1912, and raised in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

He was raised in the Quaker tradition, and his…