Biography: You Need to Know: Bayard Rustin

Published: Sep 19, 2022

The most consequential social justice movements of the 20th century, were guided by a Black, gay, pacifist... a man who overcame countless challenges, in the fight for equal rights.

Famous Activists

PURDUE PHARMA, STAMFORD, CT, UNITED STATES - 2019/09/12: Artist and Activist Nan Goldin - Members of P.A.I.N. (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) and Truth Pharm staged a protest on September 12, 2019 outside Purdue Pharma headquarters in Stamford, over their recent controversial opioid settlement. Participants dropped hundreds prescription bottles of OxyContin while holding tombstones with the names of opioids casualties and banners reading "Shame on Sackler" and "200 Dead Each Day". (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

How Nan Goldin Waged War Against Big Pharma

Susan B. Anthony

a statute of four men standing side by side in front of a college building

How the Greensboro Four Began the Sit-In Movement

Myrlie Evers-Williams

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Henry "Box" Brown

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Editorial ImagesImagesCreativeEditorialVideoCreativeEditorialJohnson & Others At 1982 Pride MarchPortrait of American gay liberation activist Marsha P Johnson (1945 - 1992) (center left, in dark outfit and black hair), along with unidentified others, on the corner of Christopher Street and 7th Avenue during the Pride March (later the LGBT Pride March), New York, New York, June 27, 1982. (Photo by Barbara Alper/Getty Images)

Marsha P. Johnson

Larry Kramer

Gilbert Baker

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