The Washington Post, August 26th, 1987
.APHILIP RANDOLPH, the great labor leader and patriarch of the civil rights movement, was the titular director of the March on Washington that took place in this city 24 years ago this week. But the planner, the detail man and the organizer was his deputy, Bayard Rustin, who died Monday in New York. That gathering-powerful, peaceful and persuasive-was a triumph not only for the movement but for the man who made the massive demonstration work. Mr. Rustin was a leading figure in the civil rights struggle, but he was not a lobbyist or the head of a large membership organization. He was an organiz...
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