Bayard Rustin memorial service, the Community Church, NYC, Oct. 1, 1987 [videorecording]. [1987]

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Bayard Rustin memorial service, the Community Church, NYC, Oct. 1, 1987 [videorecording]. [1987]

Includes speeches of Charles Bloomstein, Norman Hill, Lane Kirkland, Liv Ullmann, Vernon Jordan, and others.

1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

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Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987

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Bayard Rustin (b. March 17, 1912, West Chester, Pennsylvania–d. August 24, 1987, Manhattan, New York) was an African-American Quaker who was concerned with nonviolence, socialism, civil rights, race relations, and international relations. He was connected with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, American Friends Service Committee, War Resisters League, Congress of Racial Equality, and Committee for Nonviolent Civil Disobedience against Military Segregation. He was imprisoned during World War II fo...

Jordan, Vernon E. (Vernon Eulion), 1935-2021

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Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. (August 15, 1935 – March 1, 2021) was an American business executive and civil rights activist who worked for Civil Rights Movement organizations before being chosen by President Bill Clinton as his close adviser. Born in Atlanta, Jordan grew up with his family in the segregated societal cosmos of Atlanta. An honors graduate of David T. Howard High School, he matriculated to DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, graduating in 1957, the only black student in a cla...

Community Church (New York, N.Y.)

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A. Philip Randolph Institute

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Hill, Norman, 1933-

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Bloomstein, Charles

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Charles Bloomstein (1913-2002); civil rights activist; conscientious objector to World War II who was experimented upon as a "human guinea pig"; director of the Mertz Gilmore Foundation; colleague and friend of Bayard Rustin; involved with organizations for peace and social justice including: CARE, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the A. Philip Randolph Institute, the War Resisters League, and the Albert Einstein Institution. From the description of Col...

Ullmann, Liv

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Kirkland, Lane.

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