IV 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 319 
Recognizing Bayard Rustin for his lifelong leadership in the civil rights, 
labor, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights move-
ments and for his exemplary dedication to realizing true equality and 
freedom in the United States. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 30, 2013 
Mr. LEWIS (for himself, Ms. NORTON, Mr. PRICE of North Carolina, Ms. 
SCHWARTZ, Mr. WATT, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mr. TAKANO, Mr. 
RANGEL, Mr. HASTINGS of Washington, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Ms. MOORE, 
Ms. HAHN, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, Mr. SCOTT 
of Virginia, Ms. JACKSON LEE, Mr. FATTAH, Ms. WILSON of Florida, 
Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. COHEN, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. POCAN, Mr. 
BRADY of Pennsylvania, Ms. LEE of California, and Mr. LOWENTHAL) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the 
Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Recognizing Bayard Rustin for his lifelong leadership in the 
civil rights, labor, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and 
transgender (LGBT) rights movements and for his exem-
plary dedication to realizing true equality and freedom 
in the United States. 
Whereas Bayard Rustin was born March 17, 1912, in West 
Chester, Pennsylvania; 
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•HRES 319 IH 
Whereas Bayard Rustin combined the pacifism of his Quaker 
religion with nonviolent movements of Mahatma Gandhi; 
Whereas Bayard Rustin was inspired by James Weldon John-
son and W.E.B. Du Bois, among others, to protest Jim 
Crow laws in the West Chester community; 
Whereas Bayard Rustin attended City College in New York, 
where he was active in the movement to defend and free 
the Scottsboro Boys in 1936; 
Whereas Bayard Rustin was a principal leader in planning a 
March on Washington in June 1941 to protest discrimi-
nation in the armed forces and defense sector, in re-
sponse to which President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 
preemptively issued an Executive order ending segrega-
tion in the defense industries; 
Whereas Bayard Rustin worked in the State of California to 
protect the property rights of Japanese-Americans im-
prisoned in internment camps as a result of World War 
II; 
Whereas Bayard Rustin, while imprisoned in Lewisburg Fed-
eral Penitentiary for conscientious objection to World 
War II, organized a protest against segregated seating in 
the prison dining hall; 
Whereas Bayard Rustin was an early leader of the Congress 
on Racial Equality (CORE), and participated in a CORE 
initiative to integrate interstate buses by challenging 
race-based seating requirements on buses in Virginia, 
Kentucky, North Carolina, and Tennessee; 
Whereas Bayard Rustin advised Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 
on nonviolent tactics during the Montgomery Bus Boy-
cotts; 
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•HRES 319 IH 
Whereas Bayard Rustin, along with Dr. King, led the initial 
organization of the Southern Christian Leadership Con-
ference to coordinate the Black faith community in polit-
ical activism; 
Whereas Bayard Rustin served as chief organizer for the 
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in August 
1963, the landmark event credited with the passages of 
the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights 
Act; 
Whereas Bayard Rustin, as the co-founder of the A. Philip 
Randolph Institute, worked tirelessly to achieve equality 
for African-Americans in the labor movement; 
Whereas Bayard Rustin championed the lesbian, gay, bisex-
ual, and transgender (LGBT) rights movement through-
out his career, working as a human rights advocate and 
testifying for New York State’s Gay Rights Bill; and 
Whereas Bayard Rustin died August 24, 1987, a leader in 
civil rights and democracy in the United States and an 
inspiration to generations of activists after him: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives recog-
nizes Bayard Rustin for his lifelong leadership in the civil 
rights, labor, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender 
(LGBT) rights movements and for his exemplary dedica-
tion to realizing true equality and freedom in the United 
States. 
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