Laura Hillenbrand

*In the biography, “Time on Two Crosses,” multiple authors worked together to compile a large collection of writings by or about Bayard Rustin in effort to allow the readers to create an image of who he was and what he stood for. The life he lived was not a simple one; Bayard Rustin was a black activist that stood by the side of famous Civil Rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr., during most of the late 1950s to the early 1960s. He bled and struggled, like many others did during this time, for…

workers and owners of the ranch treat him as if he was an animal: “I ain’t wanted in the bunkhouse, and you ain’t wanted in my room”(68). The horse stables is where crooks calls home. Being forced to live with animals is stripping his dignity Laura Hillenbrand says “Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.” By forcing crooks to live in a stable they are portraying him as worthless and less of a human than the other workers on the ranch. When talking with Lennie about the…