- Bayard Rustin Sings a Program of Spirituals with Scripture Reading by James Farmer · 2014
- Elizabethan Songs and Negro Spirituals · 2009
- Elizabethan Songs and Negro Spirituals · 2009
- Bayard Rustin Sings a Program of Spirituals with Scripture Reading by James Farmer · 2014
- Bayard Rustin Sings a Program of Spirituals with Scripture Reading by James Farmer · 2014
- Elizabethan Songs and Negro Spirituals · 2009
- Bayard Rustin Sings a Program of Spirituals with Scripture Reading by James Farmer · 2014
- Bayard Rustin Sings a Program of Spirituals with Scripture Reading by James Farmer · 2014
- Bayard Rustin Sings a Program of Spirituals with Scripture Reading by James Farmer · 2014
- Bayard Rustin Sings a Program of Spirituals with Scripture Reading by James Farmer · 2014
- Bayard Rustin Sings a Program of Spirituals with Scripture Reading by James Farmer · 2014
- Bayard Rustin Sings a Program of Spirituals with Scripture Reading by James Farmer · 2014
- Bayard Rustin Sings a Program of Spirituals with Scripture Reading by James Farmer · 2014
About 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. Rustin appeared in the 1939 musical John Henry, which starred Paul Robeson. During World War II, Rustin registered as a conscientious objector and was imprisoned; while in prison, he taught himself to play the lute. After undertaking considerable research on his own, Rustin issued the album Elizabethan Songs & Negro Spirituals in 1952. He made several more albums of traditional African American material; all of his recordings are quite rare. Rustin died in New York on August 24, 1987.
- HOMETOWN
- West Chester, PA, United States
- BORN
- March 17, 1912
- GENRE
- Vocal