Web site companion to a documentary examining the life of Bayard Rustin, one of the first "freedom riders," an adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and A. Philip Randolph, and an organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Rustin was forced to play a background role in landmark civil rights events because he was homosexual. The site includes classroom resources, a link to a trailer of the film, and other resource relating to the documentary.

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