youtu.be/njXdjZzDmYg BAYARD RUSTIN IS ONE OF 3 BIOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERS I WILL EMBODY FOR THE TOURING STAGE PLAY DUTY CALLS! Bayard was a minority within a minority...he was an African-American fighting against Racism...a Gay man fighting against Homophobia and a Pacifist fighting against Endless War. In Nov. 2013, President Obama awarded the highest civilian award in the United States, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to the trailblazing civil rights activist Bayard Rustin. Rustin was a mentor and key advisor to Martin Luther King Jr. and introduced him to Mahatma Gandhis teachings on nonviolence. Rustin helped King start the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957. Six years later, he was the chief organizer of the historic 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, rallying hundreds of thousands of people for economic justice, full employment, voting rights and equal opportunity. Rustin pioneered the use of Gandhian nonviolence as a way of calling attention to segregation and other forms of racism in the United States. Check out the small clip of this great man we werent taught about in school... youtu.be/njXdjZzDmYg
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