As Birmingham commemorates 1963 - its year of change - the city must not forget oft-overlooked Bayard Rustin, an essential architect and defiantly gay warrior for change.
told The History Channel. “From what I hear, the headquarters was in sheer chaos all the time. And Rustin thrived in an environment like that.”
Yet Rustin’s place in the pantheon of the movement is shrouded by his sexuality. He was gay. Defiantly and openly gay.
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