| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin. Prod. by Nancy Kates and Bennett Singer. Independent Television Service, 2002. 83 mins. (California Newsreel, Ordering Dept., Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407; 877-811-7495; <contact@newsreel.org>; <http://www.newsreel.org> [Sept. 15, 2003])

More than a decade before Martin Luther King Jr. became the preeminent symbol of nonviolence, Bayard Rustin was lending his brilliant oratorical, intellectual, and organizational powers to the struggle for peace and justice. Indeed, King learned the fundamentals of nonviolence from Rustin. The central question of this documentary is why Rustin always remained "in the background ... never coming forward in the full measure of his great talents." This question is put early in the documentary, asked by an unidentified voice, probably that of the political activist Eleanor Holmes Norton. The answer: he had a short-lived connection with the Young Communist League, he was gay, and—at the height of the intolerant 1950s—he was jailed for "lewd vagrancy."

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