Payard Rosetin: I still talk about the truth to power

In 1949, a series of five parts in New York Post, Entitled “22 days on a chain gang”, and documented convincingly the daily grinding of men who are being held in North Carolina prison. Its author was only Payard Rosetin, Civil Rights Leader – and then one of the best close associates of Reverend Martin Luther King Junior. “While I was lying in bed for another few minutes, I started thinking about food,” he said. “We had beans – boiled beans, red beans, or Lima pills – every day to have lunch … one of the most frequently quoted hair parts described lunch:” beans and corn bread / every day / if it does not change / I will make my smuggler.

Rustin, along with many activists, was arrested two years ago for his attempt to integrate the US state bus system into a campaign known as the reconciliation trip, a lesser introduction to the Raja Freedom Raving in 1961. mail Help end the prison chain gangs in North Carolina. It was only one of the many cases in a wonderful life of moral clarity and its huge impact.

David Katzenstein

Bayard Rustin, a conscience bank, a conscience, and an early American supporter of the nonviolence, was one of the most important figures who were a student in the civil rights movement in the mid -twentieth century. He was personally invited to India to study the principles of reconciliation and violent in Mahatma Gandhi. He was working with A. Philip Randolph from the Muslim Brotherhood from sleeper car. Dr. King advised, through his assassination in 1968. More importantly, he was the main architect of the 1963 march in Washington. (He died in 1987 at the age of 75.)

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The call to Roastin and the leadership of thought were always advanced on the movement’s main current. In recent years, he was getting a later prize in episodes and starting (not to mention a set of books and plays). Rosetin was the axis of the 2003 documentary My brother is strange. In 2013 the President Barack Obama He gave him the medal of freedom after his death. In 2023 it was a subject George C WolfFilm entitled “starring” starring Coleman Domingo At the Academy Award turn. And last fall was honored in the song Brian CarterOratorio Jazz Oratorio Two Rosen in the Renaissance, Which was first shown in jazz in New York City at the Lincoln Center. His contributions to the success of the civil rights movement is indisputable, but now historians began to estimate its disbursement in adopting social and economic justice corresponding to the intersection (specifically during the 1968 campaign of the poor), that it laid the basis for both the occupation of Wall Street and today, the campaign of the poor that was activated today, shares it with aroid toroid in theroid. William Barber II.

The Rustin influence is now being praised at the multimedia exhibition at the National Museum of Civil Rights in Memphis. The offer is called “Speak in truth to power: Payard Rosin’s life,” It will continue until December 31 Walter NaeGle, His collection of RUSTIN, archive materials and instant animals is a good part of more than 500 personal beings at the exhibition, from correspondence to photographs to sculptural artifacts. NaeGle, Rustin’s perpetrators and his remaining companion was the one who spent the past decade of his life, who offered access to the teacher Gay sex Feldman And photographer David Katzenstein To help organize the exhibition.

The museum is the perfect place for display. Since 1991, she stood on the Motel Lauren website, where King was assassinated on April 4, 1968. During the years, one of the RUSTIN’s notes was prominent on the wall in the permanent collection of the museum. It is a phrase that talks about volumes about the current moment: “When the individual protests against the society’s refusal to recognize his dignity as a human being, the act of the protest that gives him dignity on him.”