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Friday, June 15
“Bayard Rustin’s Posthumous Honors" (read by: Les Quintana)
One of the major African-American civil rights activists, Bayard Rustin, was remembered in many ways after his death in
1987.
In 1995, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission erected a historical marker for Bayard Rustin in his home town of West Chester, Pennsylvania.
In 2003, construction began on Bayard Rustin High School built in West Chester. Opening in the 2006-07 school year, it was named by Newsweek as one America’s top high schools in 2011.
In 2007, a group called the Bayard Rustin LGBT Coalition was created by a group of San Francisco Bay Area African-American leaders. Their mission is to promote greater participation in the electoral process, advance civil and human rights, and promote Rustin’s legacy.
Fittingly, a library and a social justice center also bear Rustin’s name.
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