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Bayard Rustin Today: Activist’s Story Told in Netflix Movie Rustin

Civil rights activist Bayard Rustin and his efforts in organizing the famous March on Washington in —where Martin Luther King Jr.

gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech—are the subject of the new biopic Rustin, which is now streaming on Netflix starting November The movie is produced by former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama’s company Higher Ground and stars Colman Domingo as Rustin.

The Associated Press praises Domingo’s “layered, astute performance” and calls the film “as vibrant as the movement it covers.”

Who Was Bayard Rustin?

Bayard Rustin began his lifelong activism work after moving to New York in the s, where he was involved in pacifist groups and early civil rights protests.

Combining nonviolent resistance with organizational skills, he was a key adviser to Martin Luther King Jr. in the mids. With labor leader A. Philip Randolph, he originated the idea and led the o