Bayard Rustin's life in letters

Machine generated contents note: 1."War is wrong" , 1942-1944

2."One ought to resist the entire system", March-August 1944

3."I am a traitor", August-December 1944

4."Until every effort is made, I am less than a man", January-August 1945

5."I am needed on the outside", November 1945-June 1946

6."A small, interracial, disciplined group ... to test Jim Crow", July 1946-December 1947

7."To fight for the United States Army is to fight for bigotry", 1948-1949

8."Let us resist with our whole beings", 1950-1952

9."For me sex must be sublimated", 1953-1955

10."This is an effort to avoid war, race war"

1956-1957, 11."Crisis is at hand for civil rights" and Africa, 1958-1959

12."Bayard was crushed", 1960-1962

13."An enormous success", 1963

14."A very central figure in the civil rights movement", 1964-1965

15."The freedom budget for all Americans", 1966-1967

16."A fantastic vacuum", 1968-1969

17."More black than Cleaver", 1970-1975

18."These people, Mr. President, desperately need our help", 1976-1979

19."Instead of a march", 1980-1983

20."Bayard Rustin, oh, what a life!", 1984-1987.