who was african-american, and openly gay, and a pacifist antisocialist with roots in the young communist league. and again, the list goes on from there. so he understood the linkages of prejudice and discrimination, partly because of his own cultural and sociopolitical identity. >> when i was looking, after reading this collection of letters that you have them and us looking for other information about bayard i made the mistake of starting, with academic sources. and as you know he isn't well studied compared to so many of the other figures. everyone you just mentioned, the much more household names from the civil rights movement. but then, of course, i went to the right place which was a children's library at the new york public library, you mentioned that there's a young adult, a children's store, a biography of bayard rustin which is pretty recent. and is a really good story. we were just looking at it before. but in it i found that he has a poem he wrote in high school where he says i ask of you know shining gold, i seek not at the path or fame, no monument of stone for me, for man need not