John D'Emilio on The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin

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Lost Prophet : The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
(John D'emilio)
Interviewer: 
Jim Fleming
Guest(s): 
John D'Emilo
10.12.2011

Historian John D'Emilio is the author of "Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin." D'Emilio tells Jim Fleming that Rustin was crucial to the civil rights movement but has been forgotten because he was gay.

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Submitted by Adeyemo Sodipo (not verified) on Mon, 08/13/2012 - 12:57am

He was not a lost prophet but a prophet that was ahead of his time. Thank you Bayard Rustin and thank you John D'emilio for this wonderful book.

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