Bayard Rustin
type: Person
description: Chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, mentor to Martin Luther King in nonviolence, and one of the architects of the modern civil rights movement.
birth date: 1912
death date: 1987
birth place: West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
death place: New York, New York, United States
nationality: American
job title: Civil rights organizer and pacifist