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Bayard Rustin was an indispensable force behind the civil rights movement and openly gay.

As new movie Rustin arrives in cinemas, explore the real life – and struggles – of the architect of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

"Rustin," a new film produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's production company, tells of a marginalized figure who helped change society: Strategist Bayard Rustin, a pacifist and gay Black man, who organized the groundbreaking 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

"Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics" is a collection of 19 essays that explore the highs and lows of the Black gay civil rights activist's life.

TheGrio caught up with the editor of “Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics,” Michael G. Long, and Rustin’s […] The post Bayard Rustin’s life, legacy and impact explored in new book appeared first on TheGrio.

Reading these first-hand accounts we see how Rustins socialist outlook, Quaker faith and formidable work ethic gave us a man with phenomenal organizing abilities to create inclusion and diversity. Work he continued until his death in 1987.

and human rights in the united states that actually the schomburg center will be looking at in an upcoming event on march 30 come and the subject of a whole other discussion but its one of the things thats very inspiring in his stories that he saw so clearly, indignity, injustice against african-americans was connected to the discrimination and the troubles, discrimination against so many voices. and so i was wondering if youd start off by talking a little bit about what brought you to...

1963 march on washington and adviser to martin luther king jr. and an openly gay man. mr. russens -- rustins letters cover over 40 years of his life, and the correspondents include eleanor holmes norton and martin luther king jr. this is about an hour, 20 minutes. >> thank you for coming. i, as a lifetime human rights activist, im especially excited to be talking about bayard rustin because, um, as you can see in his collective letters and as id like to ask michael to talk about, he wa...