The forgotten man of the march

WASHINGTON – Martin Luther King. A. Phillip Randolph. John Lewis.

Their names have become synonymous with The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. But a name that arguably has gone largely unknown in the 50 years since is that of the man tasked with pulling it off – chief organizer Bayard Rustin.

Rustin was a prot

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