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

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

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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