Rustin
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Rustin was about to take things on a course that would hurt him.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025
As far as Rustin was concerned, the nurse assistant should never have been in the room and wouldn’t have if the hospital hadn’t lost a third of its staff in the past four months.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025
Sing Sing star Colman Domingo is nominated for best actor, just a year after his last nomination in the same category for Rustin.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2025
Bayard Rustin spent six months studying nonviolence in the country.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2024
“Malcolm X caused many young Negroes to take a new vision of themselves,” said Bayard Rustin, a main figure in organizing the March on Washington in 1963.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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