Bayard Rustin
Significant Others
Personal Struggles and Arrest Impact
Explore the personal struggles and adversities faced by a courageous activist who encountered police hostility due to his sexual orientation in 1953, causing profound impacts on his life and work.
The architect of the March on Washington and co-author of Dr. King’s memoir was a mentor to the great civil rights martyr. But he was nearly hidden from history—largely by choice.
Starring: J. Holtham as Bayard Rustin and Anthony Obi as Martin Luther King, Jr.
Also featuring: Miles Grose, Matt Gourley, and Jesse Thorn.
Source List:
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute, Bayard Rustin, To Bayard Rustin, Glenn E. Smiley, From Bayard Rustin, Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Address at NAACP Mass Rally for Civil Rights
Facing History & Ourselves, Brother Outsider: Remembering Gay Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin
Lambda Legal, 67 Years Later, Bayard Rustin’s California Arrest and Jail Time Have Been Pardoned
Jewish News Syndicate, Bayard Rustin (1912-1987)
Bill of Rights Institute, Bayard Rustin, Nonviolence vs. Jim Crow, 1942
PBS.org., Who Designed the March on Washington?
The Weekly Challenger, The FBI Plot to Bring Down the Gay Man Behind the March on Washington
Making Gay History, Bayard Rustin
Washington Blade, Looking Back: 50 Years of the Blade
The Washington Post, Bayard Rustin, Organizer of the March on Washington, Was Crucial to the Movement, In ‘I Must Resist,’ Bayard Rustin Lived a Life with No Apologies
Montgomery Advertiser, 21, 22, 23, & 24 February 1956
Cross Country Solidarity, The Montgomery Bus Boycott: The Full Story
LA Times, Glenn Smiley; Advised King on Nonviolence
The Guardian, When Martin Luther King Gave Up His Guns
Why a Gay, Black Civil Rights Hero Opposed Affirmative Action
Malcolm X and Bayard Rustin Debate on WBAI
CivilRights.org, Bayard Rustin and the Presidential Medal of Freedom: A Perfect Fit
Yale Law School, Bayard Rustin Centennial
Researchgate.net, Arrest Record for Bayard Rustin
Beacon Broadside, Roy Wilkins’s Reluctant Tribute to W.E.B. Du Bois
Legal Defense Fund, Brown v. Board of Education
Greensboro.com, Thurmond, FBI Had Close Ties, Records Show
The New York Times, Negro Rally Aide Rebuts Senator
I Must Resist, Bayard Rustin’s Life In Letters, Ed. Michael Long, City Lights Books, ©2012
Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin by John D’Emilio, Free Press/Simon & Schuster, ©2003
ALABAMA V. KING, By Dan Abrams and Fred Grey with David Fisher, Harlequin Enterprises, Ltd., ©2022
Martin Luther King, Jr., Homosexuality, and the Early Gay Rights Movement By Michael Long, First published by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, a division of St. Martin’s Press, ©2012
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David J Garrow, ©1986, Edition published 2015 by Open Road Media
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