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Reading these first-hand accounts we see how Rustin's 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 it's one of the things that's 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 you'd start off by talking a little bit about what brought you to the story, tell us more about him and what makes him so compelling and so exciting as a figure. ...
1963 march on washington and adviser to martin luther king jr. and an openly gay man. mr. russen's -- rustin's 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, i'm especially excited to be talking about bayard rustin because, um, as you can see in his collective letters and as i'd like to ask michael to talk about, he was really the, the in some ways sole vote in the civil rights movement who really saw a complete ...