| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin. By John D'Emilio. (New York: Free Press, 2003. viii, 568 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-684-82780-8.)

In the recent biographies by Jervis Anderson and Daniel Levine, and in Nancy Kates and Bennett Singer's documentary film Brother Outsider (2002), Bayard Rustin, major adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. during and after the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955–1956 and the prime organizer of the March on Washing-ton in August 1963, has also been revealed as a leader in the pacifist movement and a major proponent of nonviolent direct action protest to challenge war, militarism, racism, and social and economic injustice in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. In Lost Prophet, John D'Emilio chronicles Rustin's domestic and international political exploits, but, rather than viewing him as a black social activist who happened to be gay in an era characterized by blatant homophobia and legalized repression, D'Emilio presents Rustin as a Christian man who happened to be gay and of African descent but who also was committed to the advancement of human rights globally.

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