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Chargement... Bayard Rustin: Troubles I've Seenpar Jervis Anderson
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Here is the first biography of one of the most gifted strategists of the civil rights movement. Organizer of the 1963 march on Washington, Bayard Rustin played a significant role during this era of dramatic change in America. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Andersen tells the story of a fascinating man who worked most often just off stage, acting as the leader’s right hand man. Rustin was a living contradiction, son of a young, unmarried girl, abandoned by his father he nonetheless grew up knowing in a close family. He was a pacifist Quaker who campaigned for arming Israel. He was openly homosexual but managed to work with the highest ranks of several religious based organizations. I could go on.
My only problem with the book is the organization. I expect a biography to follow a person’s life. With Rustin’s career that would have meant wondering between causes. Anderson chose to try to keep the causes together and wonder back and forth through Rustin’s life. His way works but I found it confusing to suddenly have the narrative jump ten years into the past.
Overall I think that this book is a great way to learn how the various causes of the twentieth century are interconnected and often co-operative. ( )