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So it’s very important to acknowledge" their roles.

Who does Chris Rock play in the 'Rustin' Netflix movie?

The comedian makes an impressive dramatic turn as NAACP leader Roy Wilkins, who routinely butts heads with Rustin in the film.

"Hoover was clearly obsessed with what all Black leaders were doing in their sex lives, but that's between him and his psychiatrist."

Did King actually come to Rustin's defense after his 'morals charge?'

South Carolina Sen. Strom Thurmond denounced Rustin, calling him a "sexual pervert" and bringing national media attention to his 1953 arrest for having sex with two men in a parked car.

“And Bayard would really be the one who would lead the march.”

So, with Randolph as the director and Rustin as his deputy, arrangements for the march were underway. Interview K-0838. I mean, much of what I knew about that had to do with the fact that John worked with BayardâJohn Dunneâworked with Bayard Rustin for a summer. He voiced his opinions publicly, leading to King harboring feelings of betrayal.

Rustin was, once again, ousted from King’s planning process.

Edgar Hoover had (misrepresented) a photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. in the bathtub and Bayard sitting on the toilet fully clothed," Wolfe says. What did his life, and his death, mean for the struggle of gay men, lesbians, bisexual and transgender people for their equality?

The big civil rights effort of the 1950’s and 60’s was to overcome the legacy of slavery and a bitter civil war in our country, and bring true equality to blacks and other minorities.

In real life, Wilkins worried about associating with Rustin because of his sexuality, as well as his ties to the Young Communist League two decades earlier.

"I read about a conversation between the two of them where (Wilkins) said, ‘It’s not that I don’t like you.

CHRIS McGINNIS:

Obviously, one of his people organized the March on Washington.

In 1963, he gave his “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington. The thing which is true is that Strom Thurmond did announce (Rustin's arrest record) less than a week before the March on Washington, hoping that it would derail the entire march.

QUINTON E. BAKER:

Yeah, you know. He wanted to highlight “the thoroughness and level of organization that is required when you’re putting on something that monumental.

A soaring voice for freedom and equality, King had emerged on the national scene leading the 1955 Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott. Because really, I guess when you ran into him, it may have just been strategy sessions and general meetings and that kind of thing. Not only did King come out in support of Rustin when questioned by the media, all of the leaders within the movement did.

“It was more casual. And so our commitment is to stand with others on issues of justice and, really, on issues of equality," he said.

CHRIS McGINNIS:

So, when John worked, I guess when you worked through John that when John worked for Bayard, he saw things that would indicate this discomfort. Although their views still clashed from time to time.

While planning the Poor People’s Campaign of 1968, Rustin questioned the effectiveness of the demonstration.

She scolded her child and told them not to touch Rustin or anyone who looked like him, hurling a slur his way in the process.

"If I go and sit quietly at the back of that bus now, that child, who was so innocent of race relations that it was going to play with me, will have seen so many blacks go in the back and sit down quietly that it's going to end up saying, 'They like it back there, I've never seen anybody protest against it.'," Rustin said in the interview, which was released in early 2019 via the podcast Making Gay History.

"It occurred to me shortly after that that it was an absolute necessity for me to declare homosexuality, because if I didn't I was a part of the prejudice," he continued.