- Collection:
- Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
- Title:
- Bayard Rustin : a Freedom Budget, part 2
- Contributor to Resource:
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987
- Date of Original:
- 1963/1967
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers--Massachusetts--Boston
African American pacifists--Massachusetts--Boston
African American men--Massachusetts--Boston
African Americans--Civil rights--Massachusetts--Boston
African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
Civil rights movements--Massachusetts--Boston
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Equality
Nonviolence--Massachusetts--Boston
United States--Social conditions
United States--Race relations
Social justice--United States
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment
African Americans--Economic conditions
Poverty
United States--Economic conditions--1945- - People:
- Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987
Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979
Keyserling, Leon H. (Leon Hirsch), 1908-1987 - Location:
- United States, Massachusetts, Suffolk County, Boston, 42.35843, -71.05977
- Medium:
- instructional materials
resource units
sound recordings
speeches
teaching guides - Type:
- MovingImage
Text - Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- Instructional Web page intended for grades nine through twelve featuring a sound clip of Bayard Rustin's 1967 speech on the Freedom Budget for All Americans. In a speech delivered on November 17, 1967 at Harvard University, civil rights leader Bayard Rustin outlined the "Freedom Budget for All Americans." In this audio recording, Rustin proposes an increase in federal spending for education, job training, and health care, and a guaranteed income plan. The Freedom Budget was designed to end poverty in America by 1975.
Continues: Bayard Rustin : a Freedom Budget, part 1.
Major funding for this project is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute.
Grade range: 9-12.
Lesson plans using this resource: Campaigns for Economic Freedom.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- https://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/iml04.soc.ush.civil.budget2/
- Rights Holder:
- The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Collection is a collaborative production of WGBH Education Productions, the WGBH Media Library, and WGBH Interactive, in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Washington University in St. Louis.
- Extent:
- audio/quicktime
2.2 Mb - Contributing Institution:
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Rights:
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