'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.
This is the snapshot history has saved from that August day in 1963, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his 'I Have a Dream' speech … the sea of peaceful people, 250,000 of them, black and white together.Standing behind Dr. King that day was Bayard Rustin, the strategist who organized the march, a singular, transformative moment for the civil rights movement. At the end of the march, Rustin read a list of demands, including for effective civil rights legislation.
He was a member of the Young Communist League when he was young. He was a pacifist during World War II, went to jail. And he was a gay man.'Naegle was his partner for ten years, before Rustin's death in 1987 at age 75. 'Being gay was kind of like the nail in the coffin,' Naegle said. 'So, I think it had a tremendous impact on his ability to rise within the movements where he worked.
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