Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
John D’Emilio · University of Chicago Press edition, 2004
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1963 · New York, New York; Washington, D.C.
Bayard Rustin & the March on Washington
The organizer behind the 1963 march
Bayard Rustin coordinated the logistics of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, drawing on years of nonviolent organizing. Racism and hostility toward his sexuality often pushed his work out of public view. The biography Lost Prophet and the film Rustin explore the man behind one of the civil rights movement’s defining events.
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