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Remembering Bayard Rustin in Life and Onscreen

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As an adolescent, Bayard Rustin had many virtues. He was smart: He served as his high school valedictorian. He was respectful: After tackling opponents as an offensive lineman on his high school team, he would help them up and recite a line of poetry.

And he was brave: While playing football, he organized a strike demanding equal accommodations for Black players who were forced to stay in substandard hotels on road trips.

Rustin (whose first name is pronounced BYE-urd) carried these values into adulthood, conceiving, organizing and executing in just two months the greatest protest in American history: the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

Yet, despite his role as an architect of a movement that worked to pass the landmark Civil Rights Act, which outlawed segregation and discrimination, Rustin’s legacy was largely ignored.

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