Rustin

[ruhs-tin]

noun

1. Bayard 1910–1987, U.S. civil rights leader.

Example Sentences

Colorful characters abound: the master builder Robert Moses, the imperious Francis Cardinal Spellman, the labor leader “Red Mike” Quill, the civil-rights activist Bayard Rustin, the budding black politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the columnist Walter Winchell, the New York Post owner Dorothy Schiff, the seedy leader of American Nazis Fritz Kuhn, Frank Sinatra and many, many others.

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Sing Sing star Colman Domingo is nominated for best actor, just a year after his last nomination in the same category for Rustin.

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The last one was for Netflix’s “Rustin” last year, where he played civil rights activist Bayard Rustin.

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This is for your performance in “Sing Sing,” last year it was for “Rustin.”

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Villarreal: Something that’s crazy to me, and I hesitate to say this out loud with my editor within earshot, but you shot this across 18 days in between “The Color Purple” and reshoots for “Rustin.”

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