Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice

Education Organization

For more than 50 years, Bayard Rustin was a nonviolent activist and leading strategist in the struggle for human rights and economic justice. As a gay man with radical politics, he was often marginalized despite his major contributions to the struggle for African American civil rights and his work for peace and disarmament. Since his death in 1987 numerous biographies and a feature length documentary, “Brother Outsider, The Life of Bayard Rustin,” have recognized the importance of his work in building a more democratic and egalitarian society. In 2013 he was awarded a posthumous President Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

The Bayard Rustin Center for Social Justice is a community activist center, educational enclave & safe-space for our LGBTQIA kids, our intersectional families & all of our beautifully diverse communities.

Legacy Stories from the Americans All Heritage Honor Roll

We are pleased to host and share these legacy stories created by honorees’ family, friends and associates. They, like us, appreciate that heritage and culture are an integral part of our nation's social fabric and want to help students participate effectively in our nation's economy, workforce and democracy.

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Quesenberry-Jacobs Delaware (March 1982 - ) Gay Rights Activists, Author, Theater, Military Veteran, Dental Professional

In 1982, Fay Jacobs, a writer, performer, public relations consultant and GLBT activist, met Bonnie Quesenberry, owner of a Baltimore Dental Laboratory who served her country with distinction in both the Army and Navy, have shared their lives as a couple for 34 years.

Fay (Rubinstein) Jacobs Delaware (June 29, 1948 - ) Author, Gay Rights Activist, Humorist, Jewish, Journalist, Theater Director

Fay Jacobs is a writer and humorist from NYC transplanted to Washington, DC, then Rehoboth Beach, DE. She has four published books, is a GLBT activist and is married to Bonnie Quesenberry. She has kept company with a long line of Schnauzers and lives by the motto "nothing is ever so bad if it's worth the story you can tell."

Allan S. Kullen Maryland (February 20, 1942 - ?) Author, Businessman, Golfer, Inventor, Jewish, Marketing, Mergers-Acquisitions, Poland, Printer, Social Entrepreneur, Traveler

“Her name is Ester Baumgartner. Do you know her? She's a pretty Swiss girl who sings beautifully, and I think she lives near here." Allan had posed the question in a broken mixture of Hebrew and English to whoever would listen and could understand him. Allan had met Ester while on an archaeological dig at Masada in the Negev, Israel. All he knew by the time they parted ways was her name and that she was staying in Tel Aviv.

Bayard Rustin New Jersey (March 17, 1912 - August 24, 1987) Activist, African American, Athlete, Black, Civil Rights, Desegregation, Economic Justice, Freedom Ride, Gay, Globalist, Jim Crow, March on Washington, Musician, Nonviolence, Pacifist, Prejudice, Quaker, Radical, Socialist, Strategist, Voting Rights