Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin was active in the struggle for human rights and economic justice. As an equal rights activist and political organizer, Rustin played an important role in propelling the Civil Rights Movement forward and worked for equal rights for marginalized communities. He is perhaps best known for his work organizing the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom rally. In the 1940s, he was a youth organizer for A. Philip Randolph’s proposed 1941 March on Washington and b