In 1956 Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr.
His gay identity, however, became a point of contention with th.
Long before the March on Washington, Rustin\'s leadership placed him at the vanguard of social protest.
Widely acclaimed as a founding father of modern black protest, Rustin reached international notoriety in 1963 as the openly gay organizer of the March on Washington. strategies of nonviolence during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, thereby launching the civil rights movement.
In 1956 Bayard Rustin taught Martin Luther King Jr