Season 4: Episode 8: Bayard Rustin

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🗓️ 10 January 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Bayard Rustin was a champion of the black civil rights movement—mentor to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. But because he was gay and out, he faced bigotry inside and outside the movement. The FBI and Sen. Strom Thurmond tried to destroy him. But he persisted. Visit our episode webpage for background information, archival photos, and other resources. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I history
0:02.0	Eric here
0:03.0	A few months ago we launched Making Gay History's Patreon channel
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0:41.0	I'm Eric Marcus and this is making gay history. In the 30 years since I started my work collecting oral histories of the LGBTQ Civil Rights Movement,
1:02.0	there's one question I'm asked more than any other.
1:05.2	Is there anyone you didn't interview who you wish you'd talk to?
1:09.9	There are a lot of people I wish I could have interviewed, but Bayard Rustin is near the top of that list,
1:15.8	for a couple of reasons.
1:17.8	For many of the early gay rights activists I spoke with, their activism began with or was inspired by or influenced by the Black Civil Rights Movement.
1:27.0	And Bayard, who was gay and open about it, was one of the principal architects of that movement,
1:32.0	having mentored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, and organized
1:35.5	the landmark 1963 March on Washington for jobs and freedom.
1:40.0	And he did so much more.
1:42.3	But Bayer died a year before I began my work.
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