Freedom Fighters - Friends

Bayard Rustin and James Baldwin hold a cloth sign that reads "Birmingham Children". Baldwin points his right hand, with cigarette, off to the right of the photo frame.
Bayard Rustin, James Baldwin
FILE - In this Sept. 18, 1963 file photo, author James Baldwin, right, and Bayard Rustin, deputy director of the March on Washington, discuss civil rights incidents in Alabama during a news conference in New York. The two civil rights leaders called upon President John F. Kennedy to use troops to "break the hold" of Gov. George Wallace, otherwise "there will be rioting in Alabama" which will affect the entire nation. The arm band displayed was to be worn at a rally scheduled in New York on Sept. 22, 1963 "to protest the brutal murder of Negro children in Birmingham." (AP Photo/File)
James Baldwin and Bayard Rustin sit to the front of a group of men. Baldwin, in a checkered shirt, smokes. Rustin, in a suit, writes in a notebook with his left hand and holds a cigarette in his right hand.
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Organizer/Deputy Director of the 1963 March on Washington, Bayard Rustin, and author James Baldwin in New York in 1963 and outside the Alabama State Capitol in 1965, after the culmination of marches from Selma to Montgomery.