This photograph depicts Bayard Rustin present at a 1965 press conference led by labor leader Walter Reuther, highlighting Rustin’s ongoing alliance with the labor movement and the collaborative efforts between civil rights and labor leaders during this pivotal period.
The mid-1960s marked a critical time of cooperation between the civil rights movement and organized labor. Rustin, renowned for his strategic skills and coalition-building, worked closely with figures like Walter Reuther of the United Auto Workers to advance economic justice and civil rights legislation, especially following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and during campaigns for voting rights and fair employment.
Rustin, Bayard, subject. "Bayard Rustin at Walter Reuther Press Conference, March 1965." Photograph. March 17, 1965. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016646668/.
