Bayard Rustin’s Ohio Connections
August 19, 2018 | Dorothy SmithBayard Rustin has several interesting connections to this area of Ohio. Rustin attended Wilberforce College in Wilberforce, Ohio, from 1932-1934 on a music scholarship. He sang tenor and traveled throughout the US with the acclaimed Wilberforce Quartet; Dr. Carl Hyde, retired physician, Quaker, age 90, resident of Friends Care Center in Yellow Springs, recounted how he, when a student at
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Getting To Know Bayard Rustin
July 17, 2018 | Catherine RomaIn early 2016 I was visiting my long-time friend and colleague the composer, arranger and conductor, Steve Milloy. Steve mentioned to me that he’d been commissioned by a group of five LGBTQ choirs to write a major work about Bayard Rustin — a gay, African-American, Quaker, civil rights activist. Little is known about Rustin who not only mentored Martin Luther
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