- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 752-754. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
- Rustin organized the March on Washington, what was then the largest demonstration ever in Washington, D.C., in under two months.
- The Bayard Rustin High School, in Rustin's hometown of West Chester, Pennsylvania, and the Bayard Rustin High School for the Humanities (H.S. 440) in Manhattan are both named after Rustin.
- Fellow civil rights leader Julian Bond has often quoted Rustin as joking that "Martin Luther King couldn't organize vampires to go to a bloodbath," meaning that despite King's gifts as a leader and an orator, King needed Rustin's and others' help with the organizational aspects of the movement.
- Posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 by President Barack Obama.
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