| NAME | DESCRIPTION |
| BAYARD RUSTIN | Bayard Rustin was an African American leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. Rustin worked with A. Philip Randolph on the March on Washington Movement, in 1941, to press for an end to racial discrimination in employment. Rustin later organized Freedom Rides, and helped to organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to strengthen Martin Luther King Jr.’s leadership and teaching King about nonviolence; he later served as an organizer for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Rustin worked alongside Ella Baker, a co-director of the Crusade for Citizenship, in 1954; and before the Montgomery bus boycott, he helped organize a group, called “In Friendship”, amongst Baker, George Lawrence, Stanley Levison of the American Jewish Congress, and some other labor leaders. “In Friendship” provided material and legal assistance to those being evicted from their tenant farms and households in Clarendon County, Yazoo, and other places.[2] Rustin became the head of the AFL–CIO’s A. Philip Randolph Institute, which promoted the integration of formerly all-white unions and promoted the unionization of African Americans. During the 1970s and 1980s, Rustin served on many humanitarian missions, such as aiding refugees from Vietnam and Cambodia. At the time of his death in 1987, he was on a humanitarian mission in Haiti. Rustin was a gay man and, due to criticism over his sexuality, he usually acted as an influential adviser behind the scenes to civil-rights leaders. In the 1980s, he became a public advocate on behalf of gay causes, speaking at events as an activist and supporter of human rights |
| DESCRIPTION | NAME OF SITE | CITY | STATE |
| BIRTHPLACE | MARKER | CHEYNEY | PENNSLYVANIA |
| ALMA MATER | WEST CHESTER HIGH SCHOOL | WEST CHESTER | PENNSLYVANIA |
| ALMA MATER | WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY | WILBERFORCE | OHIO |
| ALMA MATER | CHEYNEY UNIVERSITY OF PENNSLYANIA | CHEYNEY | PENNSLVANIA |
| WENT TO | CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK | NEW YORK CITY | NEW YORK CITY |
| WENT TO | CAFÉ SOCIETY IN SHERIDAN/WEST VILLAGE | NEW YORK CITY | NEW YORK CITY |
| WENT TO | JAPANESE YOUNG WOMEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | NEW YORK CITY | NEW YORK CITY |
| MUSEUM | WEST CHESTER HISTORY MUSEUM | WEST CHESTER | PENNSLVANIA |
| DEATHPLACE | BAYARD RESIDENCE- RUSTIN PURCHASED APT. 9J OF THE NEWLY BUILT PENN SOUTH COMPLEX IN THE WEST CHELSEA SECTION OF MANHATTAN. | NEW YORK CITY | NEW YORK CITY |
| BURIAL/MEMORIAL | First Avenue and E. 43rd Street- RALPH BUNCHE PARK | NEW YORK CITY | NEW YORK CITY |
