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Bayard Rustin, the openly-gay African American civil rights organiser, is widely acclaimed as the founding father of modern black protest, having taught Martin Luther King, Jr. strategies of non-violence during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, thereby launching the birth of the Civil Rights Movement, as well as organising the 1963 March on Washington. Throughout his extraordinary life, however, his open homosexuality was a point of contention among black church leaders, including King himself. This is an extraordinary showcase of the writings of this pioneer of two movements.
