Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Organizing Weekend (January
16-19, 2009) in Honor of Bayard Rustin
MLK Organizing Weekend in Honor of Bayard Rustin is a student-led action focusing on coalition-building strategies that Bayard Rustin used to assist fellow activists, including Martin Luther King Jr., to create social change.
The action brings the experiences of students working in the safe schools movement together with other social justice work to recognize the importance of collaborating with other groups, understanding the roots of organizing within movements for social justice and working outside of our schools.
The weekend will teach students about Bayard Rustin’s methods of reaching out to different communities to galvanize a movement comprised of people of different races, ethnicities, religious beliefs and age. Learn more about Rustin’s legacy by viewing the above video which is excerpted from the film Out of the Past.
