Bayard Rustin, organizer of the March on Washington, was crucial to the movement
http://dervishcom.blogspot.com/2011/08/bayard-rustin-organizer-of-march-on.html
It was around this point in August 1963, in the sweltering days before the March on Washington, that Eleanor Holmes Norton was waiting for someone to say something really nasty about her boss.
She was a march volunteer. The boss was Bayard Rustin, the march's chief organizer and the man widely viewed as the only civil rights activist capable of pulling off a protest of such unprecedented scale.
And he was gay. Openly gay. That year again? 1963.
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