Bayard Rustin

A plaque commemorating the Quaker Bayard Rustin has been unveiled in New York

by Rebecca Hardy 13th July 2018

The Quaker and black civil rghts activist Bayard Rustin, who was a close associate of Martin Luther King and an advocate of gay and lesbian rights, had a commemorative plaque unveiled on 28 June outside his long-time residence at Penn South, New York.