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Bayard Rustin: The gay Black man who transformed the civil rights movement is focus of new film


It was strategist Bayard Rustin – a pacifist and gay Black man – who organized the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I have a dream” speech. But Rustin’s role in transforming the civil rights movement has been largely forgotten. “Rustin,” a new film directed by George C. Wolfe and produced by former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s production company, is an attempt to correct the historical record about a marginalized figure who helped change society. CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Martha Teichner talks with Wolfe and Barack Obama about Rustin’s legacy, and what his story means for today’s generation.

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