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In case anyone is interested, BookTV segment on Rustin's published letters
"I must Resist"
Michael Long presents a collection of over 150 letters from Civil Rights leader, Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, an advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., and an openly gay man. Mr. Rustin's letters cover over forty years of his life and the correspondents include the likes of Roy Wilkins, Eleanor Holmes Norton, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Michael Long speaks with Khalil Gibran Muhammad, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the Schomburg Center in New York City.
http://www.booktv.org/Watch/13314/I+Must+Resist+Bayard+Rustins+Life+in+Letters.aspx
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