Over the course of a 75-year life that ended in 1987, Bayard Rustin had been a member — by choice or by circumstance — of more disfavored societal groups than the average ego is capable of keeping ...
On the eve of the 40th anniversary of the 1963 civil rights march on Washington, D'Emilio takes an unflinching look at the complicated life of the man who made it happen. That Rustin (1912–1987), a ...