Bayard Rustin

Best known as a key figure in the U.S. civil rights movement as an organizer of the 1963 March on Washington and an instructor of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the theory of nonviolence, Bayard Rustin also issued several recordings. One of them featured Elizabethan repertory as well as similar works of his own composition. Rustin was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, on March 17, 1912. His grandparents ran a successful catering business, and his family was prosperous. Rustin grew up singing in an African Methodist Episcopal Church choir. He majored in music at Wilberf...