Bayard Rustin Way Street Dedication
June 9, 2022 @ 6:00PM — 8:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
Pride Center (outdoors): 28 South Franklin Street Nyack, NY 10960 Get Directions
Help Us Honor History.
Bayard Rustin was a courageous and trailblazing social justice activist. A member of the Black and LGBTQ+ community, he was the lead organizer of the March on Washington and a close associate of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For over a decade, Rustin worked for the Fellowship of Reconciliation, which was headquartered on North Broadway in Upper Nyack, New York. Jackson Avenue was once the western edge of a vibrant middle-class Black community that was destroyed by urban renewal in the 1960s. The building where the Pride Center currently operates was once the headquarters of the Nyack Elks Lodge 424, an important Black social club. The Nyack NAACP and Pride Center, along with the Village of Nyack, are collaborating to dedicate a section of Jackson Avenue after this essential leader in both the African American and LGBTQ+ communities as a way to honor the intersectional legacies of this figure, these communities, and this building.
OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUPPORT
PREMIER SPONSORSHIP: $2,500
- UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY: Name/Logo on the historical placard installed on the exterior of the Pride Center building.
- Name/Logo featured on the flyer, digital graphics, website, marketing, and event signage on the main stage of the event, including acknowledgment from the stage.
PRESENTING SPONSOR: $1,000
- Name/Logo featured on the flyer, digital graphics, website, marketing, and event signage on the main stage of the event, including acknowledgment from the stage.
EQUALITY SPONSOR: $500
- Name/Logo on event signage on the main stage of the event.
WINDOW SPONSOR: $250 - limited availability!
- Kris Burns of Festoon on Hudson will work with Michael
Lockett of M Squared Creative to turn the Rockland County Pride building into a
community art installation. Using the windows of the building, they will
illustrate, celebrate and amplify Bayard Rustin’s essential role in the Black
and LGBTQ communities and American history.
COMMUNITY PARTNER: $100
- Your donation of any amount helps fund the Bayard Rustin Way Project. All proceeds will be shared equally between the Pride Center and the Nyack NAACP.
A big thank you to our sponsors!
Premier Sponsorship
Presenting Sponsor
Window Sponsor
