{"id":175424169,"date":"2022-01-15T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T09:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/?p=175424169"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:38:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:38:12","slug":"polarization-as-possibility-the-justice-strategizing-of-bayard-rustin-and-martin-luther-king-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2022\/01\/15\/polarization-as-possibility-the-justice-strategizing-of-bayard-rustin-and-martin-luther-king-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Polarization as Possibility: The Justice Strategizing of Bayard Rustin and Martin Luther King, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The video of the event announced below is now available!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Polarization as Possibility: The Justice Strategizing of Bayard Rustin and Martin Luther King, Jr.\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/669646727?h=6191552000&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Our friends at the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship at Haverford College are sponsoring an exciting online event on <strong>January 21, 2022<\/strong> titled<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haverford.edu\/peace-and-global-citizenship\/blog\/polarization-possibility-justice-strategizing-bayard-rustin-and\"> &#8220;Polarization as Possibility: The Justice Strategizing of Bayard Rustin and Martin Luther King, Jr.&#8221;<\/a> featuring our own George Lakey and Professor Terrance Wiley of Religion and Africana Studies at Haverford College. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Conflict is challenging for many of us, but the insights of King and Rustin offer hope.&nbsp; King encountered violent conflict across America yet received the Nobel Peace Prize. His mentor Rustin urged \u201cangelic troublemakers\u201d to act more boldly.&nbsp; What can we learn from the organizing leader behind much of the Civil Rights Movement,&nbsp;<strong>Bayard Rustin<\/strong>, who was born in nearby West Chester, PA, and raised in a Quaker household? How did King and Rustin\u2019s theories of change leverage polarization toward possibility, and what does it mean for us in today\u2019s environment?&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haverford.edu\/peace-and-global-citizenship\/blog\/polarization-possibility-justice-strategizing-bayard-rustin-and\">Read more and register.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/01\/polarization-as-possibility-Rustin-King-1-2022-1024x507.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-175424170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/01\/polarization-as-possibility-Rustin-King-1-2022-1024x507.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/01\/polarization-as-possibility-Rustin-King-1-2022-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/01\/polarization-as-possibility-Rustin-King-1-2022-768x381.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/01\/polarization-as-possibility-Rustin-King-1-2022-1536x761.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/01\/polarization-as-possibility-Rustin-King-1-2022.jpg 1891w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video of the event announced below is now available! Our friends at the Center for Peace and Global Citizenship at Haverford College are sponsoring an exciting online event on January 21, 2022 titled &#8220;Polarization as Possibility: The Justice Strategizing of Bayard Rustin and Martin Luther King, Jr.&#8221; featuring our own George Lakey and Professor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2022\/01\/15\/polarization-as-possibility-the-justice-strategizing-of-bayard-rustin-and-martin-luther-king-jr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Polarization as Possibility: The Justice Strategizing of Bayard Rustin and Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[522,12,41,155,22,88],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175424169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175424169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175424169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175424181,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175424169\/revisions\/175424181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175424169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175424169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175424169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}