Working for the freedom from employment discrimination and the right of working families to fair pay, job safety, secure retirements and affordable health care have been goals fundamental to the union movement, which has long partnered with the civil rights and women’s movements and, more recently, with the LGBTQ community.
Bayard Rustin
, one of the most prominent activists in the civil rights movement and co-founder of the A. Philip Randolph Institute (
APRI
), will be posthumously honored with the
Presidential Medal of Freedom
, the White House announced Thursday.
Rustin, who worked closely with Randolph, was a major figure in organizing the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. A week of actions and celebrations is planned later this month to mark the 50th anniversary of the march. Read more here .
