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bayard rustin's name came up. gay man in 1963 organized a march on washington? how is that possible? as this closeted young man sitting here listening to this. i was trying to figure out who i was and how to nav devasigate te world. >> the film also dyei idiving ie trip and challenges rustin had with dr. martin luther king, jr. >> he was the one person who had a sense of how you translate the philosophy of nonviolence into action on the ground. so he became really a key advisor to dr. king. >> at times, rustin's identity as a gay man was at odds with king's pastoral image. but the two eventually joined forces to bring the 1963 march on washington to life. it became an unprecedented event in american history. 250,000 people are estimated to have gathered for a peaceful protest in the nation's capital, demanding the united states fulfill its promise of equality for all. it was on that day dr. martin luther king delivered one of his most powerful towering feats o oratory. >> i have a dream. my poor little children on
bayard rustin's name came up. gay man in 1963 organized a march on washington? how is that possible? as this closeted young man sitting here listening to this. i was trying to figure out who i was and how to nav devasigate te world. >> the film also dyei idiving ie trip and challenges rustin had with dr. martin luther king, jr. >> he was the one person who had a sense of how you translate the philosophy of nonviolence into action on the ground. so he became really a key advisor to...
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[applause] >> stephen: we just saw you in that clip as bayard rustin.iot act to martin luther king right there. for those who don't know, who was he? what figure was he in the civil rights movement that he had that intimate, powerful relationship with king? >> colman: first of all, he was the one who really inspired dr. king on his ideologies about pacifism, teachings of gandhi et cetera, he was an outlier in the world. raised quaker, black guy from west chester, pennsylvania. he played the loot and saying elizabethan love songs and he also organized the march on washington. he was wildly hidden into the shadows of history because of his -- he was openly gay. in 1963. just imagine, there was no out or open at that time. it would devastate not only his career, his livelihood, but also bring harm to his body. >> stephen: was their worry within the civil rights community, the conversations going on right now that perhaps the fact that he was openly gay is going to be damaging to the movement? because strom thurmond and j. edgar hoover are going to use him
[applause] >> stephen: we just saw you in that clip as bayard rustin.iot act to martin luther king right there. for those who don't know, who was he? what figure was he in the civil rights movement that he had that intimate, powerful relationship with king? >> colman: first of all, he was the one who really inspired dr. king on his ideologies about pacifism, teachings of gandhi et cetera, he was an outlier in the world. raised quaker, black guy from west chester, pennsylvania. he...
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it was time that bayard rustin was seen and heard and understood. >> i know. of people have learned that he was the man behind martin luther king jr. famous march and helped to organize it. >> yes. >> you wrote the song, right? what did you feel you had to convey right out of the box? >> the spirit of the movement which, you know, "the road to freedom" is what all of these great people were on and what bayard rustin was on. that road continues today. i mean we are still facing so many of the same issues in a different way, in a different time period, but this road is endless. we are continually moving boundaries and walls and pushing our way through to try to get to a better world. so that's what i wanted to convey. >> can i ask you? because reading the research for this interview i was really stunned by something really important in your life, not just for you but for culture itself, american culture. you are the son of a white jewish father and a black mother with bahamian roots. >> yes. >> not only that, she, your mother, went on to portray the first -- i t
it was time that bayard rustin was seen and heard and understood. >> i know. of people have learned that he was the man behind martin luther king jr. famous march and helped to organize it. >> yes. >> you wrote the song, right? what did you feel you had to convey right out of the box? >> the spirit of the movement which, you know, "the road to freedom" is what all of these great people were on and what bayard rustin was on. that road continues today. i mean we...
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i already knew who bayard rustin was.knew about him. >> he was almost lost to history until you and the team behind this movie came along and put him on the map. that has to feel amazing. >> it feels amazing especially in the way we've done it as well. so many people put so much loving, gentle hands around this. but the film is very sort of personal. i like the fact it feels a little small, an intimate character study. when we tell ourselves such lies, start to live and believe such lies, we do the work of our oppressors. i try to show what the film "rustin" the complexities of the human being. he was spirited. he loved to sing, to dance, he loved to have cocktails. once i knew he was openly gay, that was very much a part of why he was buried. i've been what i was as an openly gay man in this industry. and i trust the universe has made the way i see myself without limitation, and that's something bayard did. >> he was critical. >> president barack obama told me backstage in d.c. -- that's a name drop. >> barack obama, kee
i already knew who bayard rustin was.knew about him. >> he was almost lost to history until you and the team behind this movie came along and put him on the map. that has to feel amazing. >> it feels amazing especially in the way we've done it as well. so many people put so much loving, gentle hands around this. but the film is very sort of personal. i like the fact it feels a little small, an intimate character study. when we tell ourselves such lies, start to live and believe such...
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." >>> tonight, bayard rustin, a civil rights high rs hero cast shadows of history. >> we are going to
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and they must have worked very closely with bayard rustin. but they they worked on making sure speaker system was working. they they got jerry bruno who was the best advanced person in the kennedy campaign to work on it. they down. they brought african black police officers from new york because there were no black police officers in washington, d.c.. they wanted them. you heard that. they made sure there was no liquor. there was no glass so that there could be no glass. they they at one point, they were afraid that there weren't going to be enough people. john kennedy brought labor leaders to make sure that there were a lot of white people involved in the march because they wanted to make sure that it was an integrated and there were there were a number of things that they really wanted to do. they wanted a large march. they wanted to be integral and and they looked at some of the speeches. to make that there wasn't too radical that upset a number of of blacks. and malcolm x was very angry at what he saw was a co-option of the march. he didn
and they must have worked very closely with bayard rustin. but they they worked on making sure speaker system was working. they they got jerry bruno who was the best advanced person in the kennedy campaign to work on it. they down. they brought african black police officers from new york because there were no black police officers in washington, d.c.. they wanted them. you heard that. they made sure there was no liquor. there was no glass so that there could be no glass. they they at one point,...
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rustin put it, that there's such a thing as a unified group right.d he pointed out that the idea of a unified black community is the invention of mostly white people and a few sort of black organizations, leaders who have an interest in sustaining that. i've often joked that i don't remember there being any meetings for the black community. we get invited to zooms and still never been invited to the jewish world conspiracy. the meeting was very upsetting. so. so i think clearly. right, there's something troubling about the idea as ayanna pressley representative from massachusetts, that that, you know, i want any black politicians without a black voice. i don't want any queer politicians are not a queer as well who is a black voice. what is it ayanna pressley? is it jim clyburn? is it barack obama or i? american black politicians have very different. right. and so what actually is that? people who claim to defund kind of way because most people just won't. right. and then the few people who do will pick the spokesperson they agree with anyway. so the
rustin put it, that there's such a thing as a unified group right.d he pointed out that the idea of a unified black community is the invention of mostly white people and a few sort of black organizations, leaders who have an interest in sustaining that. i've often joked that i don't remember there being any meetings for the black community. we get invited to zooms and still never been invited to the jewish world conspiracy. the meeting was very upsetting. so. so i think clearly. right, there's...