rustin is a portrait of bayard rustin, portrayed powerfully by actor colman domingo. on washington, dc... rustin, born in 1912, was a key architect of one of the most momentous events in 20th century us history — the 1963 civil rights march on washington, where martin luther king gave his famous "i have a dream" speech. this year is the 60th anniversary of the march on washington. it was one of the largest rallies for human rights ever held in the us. it brought forth real change, credited with building momentum for the passage of the landmark 1964 civil rights act. bayard rustin's role in organising the march has been overlooked. it's been speculated that was partly because he was gay. george c wolfe passionately wanted to tell his story. there wouldn't have been a march without bayard rustin. his brain, his organisational brain was phenomenal. he was able to engage a group of young kids in late teens, early 20s, to do all the hard, detailed work which allowed the march to happen. he had this brain, he could convince anybody of anything, and he was able to garner the

rustin is a portrait of bayard rustin, portrayed powerfully by actor colman domingo.912, was a key architect of one of the most momentous events in 20th—century us history — the 1963 civil rights march on washington, where martin luther king gave his famous i have a dream speech. # we shall overcome... this year is the 60th anniversary of the march on washington. it was one of the largest rallies for human rights ever held in the us. it brought forth real change, credited with building momentum for the passage of the landmark 1964 civil rights act. bayard rustin�*s role in organising the march has been overlooked. it's been speculated that was partly because he was gay. george c wolfe passionately wanted to tell his story. there wouldn't have been a march without bayard rustin. his brain, his organisational brain was phenomenal. he was able to engage a group of young kids, in late teens, early 20s, to do all the hard, detailed work which allowed the march to happen. he had this brain, he could convince anybody of anything, and he was able to garner the respect of ever

rustin, thank you for your time.th no money? he gave me the first $500 check. he said, "give the young man a check." fast forward, three years ago, i told this as an a. philip randolph institute conference, that bayard rustin founded the conference, and rochelle harwood said, "he's telling the truth. i gave the check." she's also one of the features in your film. >> absolutely. >> talk about how rochelle and bayard worked with labor and really enacted a lot of the things that dr. king and others in the civil rights movement leadership at that time that we remember today, they were like the ones that were the wheels that kept a coalition together of labor and civil rights and other groups. >> absolutely. one of the things that's really interesting is when certain civil rights organizations were a little cautious about joining in, they engaged labor. they were able to put into place all the dynamics that they wouldn't have otherwise. they formed these incredibly intense coalitions. bayard did what he did primarily with

montgomery so literally people like bayard rustin people. lillian smith just arrive montgomery saying we need you and we're going to you know what can we do to help you take this beyond montgomery and one of the people who contact him is this white businessman with with and long lasting communist ties named stanley levison and stanley levison goes on to become one of king's closest friends and best advisors for the rest of his life. he ghost writes a lot of king's books for him and. they have these long, late night conversations. king was not a good sleeper. he'd be up two or three in the morning with ideas racing through his head, and he could call stanley levison probably more than anyone else, to kick these ideas around. and it's a fascinating friendship. it's strictly an activist intellectual friendship, not like, you know, ralph abernathy, with whom, you know, he would die in every, you know, whenever he's in atlanta who sunday dinners and all of that. well, levison said that king was really the most powerful figure in the country witho

i'll never forget talking to bayard rustin about it. he said that he had never gotten any decent publicity. was the principal organizer behind the march, bayard rustin was a black ex-communist out of wedlock homosexual who who was denigrated by every standard in american life. and yet when the when the march on washington turned out so well he was made the ark. he was made the wizard who transformed who explained why armageddon had turned into a picnic. and he he confronted the reporters privately. and, of course, they never printed any of this and said, i know why you're being so nice to me. he was he was on the cover of life magazine, the wizard of the march on washington. he said he said, now you were reconciled to me and you won't say any nasty things about me anymore. as you were saying, i am the wizard who put porta potties all along the march and made all those -- nice enough for tea. and that's how the march on washington came out. so these are just two examples of the fact that most of what we think and what we feel about race

rustin, think you for your time. >> he said young man, how you gonna start your own group with no moneythe young men and 500 dollar check. fast forward three years ago, i told -- that rustin he founded the conference and rachel hardwoods joining the stage and said told him the truth, he gave him the check. she's also one of the features in your film. talk about how rachel and bayard worked with labor and really enacted a lot of the things that dr. king and others in the civil rights movement leadership at that time that we remember today. they were like the ones that were the wheels that kept a coalition together of labor and civil rights and other groups. >> absolutely, and one of the things that's really interesting is that in servile civil rights organizations were cautious about joining in, they engaged labor. so they were able to put into place all of the dynamics that they wouldn't have otherwise. and they form these incredibly intense coalitions. bayard did what he did primarily with a team, like rachel, a team of kids. they were in their late teens and early twenties, and they w

at this time, they were working to randolph and rustin were working to develop a freedom budget. that would capture their ideas for, restructuring the american economy. the freedom budget was first proposed by them in late 1965. and it was submitted to the johnson administration and to the public. october 1966. the aim, the budget, was to rework the the federal government. to create equity through participation. it envisioned a federal budget restructured to guarantee a job for everyone, ready and willing work at a living wage which lifted all workers out of poverty. so this is something of a starting position in the african-american and social movement that was putting pressure on policy deliberations in washington a corollary in this moment. was the student nonviolent coordinating committee. which was the youth the youth branch of the civil rights movement. and it is within this branch of the civil rights that we can that this shift that i'm talking about away from the lobbying for opportunity toward the more militant claim for guaranteed income, it's easier, see. it's easy to

rustin is a portrait of bayard rustin, portrayed powerfully by actor colman domingo.allies for human rights ever held in the us. it brought forth real change, credited with building momentum for the passage of the landmark 196a civil rights act. bayard rustin's role in organising the march has been overlooked. it's been speculated that was partly because he was gay. george c wolfe passionately wanted to tell his story. there wouldn't have been a march without bayard rustin. his brain, his organisational brain was phenomenal. he was able to engage a group of young kids, in late teens, early 20s, to do all the hard, detailed work which allowed the march to happen. he had this brain, he could convince anybody of anything, and he was able to garner the respect of everybody who he came into contact, even those people who did not want to respect him. people have obviously heard of martin luther king, the march on washington, "i have a dream," that speech. but they haven't heard so much about bayard rustin. was part of the aim of you making this film to really call attention

we've been collecting it since 1960 and we been using inner civil rightsat enforcement but rustin allanssistant secretary for civil rights before ' was in the obama years made it more transparent and more accessible extra so more people could use. i love that about him and i'm delighted people using it i would welcome having parallel data in a parallel data look into institutions of higher education. there are some statutory limitations on our ability to gather that. i heard that congresswoman jackson lee's office was on the maybe to be a statute to give the sport authority on this but this also expense associated with it to the civil rights data collection is among the more expensive endeavors in the office of civil rightsit and we are budgetary elite limited as it is. we have, the president called for a 27% increase in our budget which humbly welcome that would allow us to bring in another 150 people to do enforcement, to be able to create a new biannual massive data collection that we are able to get clean up and make public. we would need some more billions of dollars to be able to

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

the american website semaphore heretics , website semaphore heretics, sonia sodha and susan susanna rustinen should be separated from biological women in certain spaces . is so be separated from biological women in certain spaces. is so. so obviously this, this, this can't be this is heresy heresy at the guardian and the sodha, who's the chief lead writer of the observer, said, i've had she's had attempts to try and get kicked off charitable boards. she's been doxed online by people who disagree with her on this issue. her home address is being published and is being published online. and there's been a of internal there's been a lot of internal kind of like debates, but apparently what's interesting is one former staff member said as long as the guardian bows to guardian us, i don't see much change in. so this is coming from the guardian, us and it's dictating to the guardian are kind of the guardians direction in the uk. so it's all coming from there and it's not surprising because the guardian us is an offshoot of the british paper than the other way paper rather than the other way arou