Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Brother Outsider : The Life of Bayard Rustin / a production of Question Why Films ; produced in association with the Center for Independent Documentary and KQED, Inc. ; produced in association with the Independent Television Service and the National Black Programming Consortium ; produced and directed by Nancy Kates, Bennett Singer.

Publisher, Date:

[San Francisco, Calif.] : California Newsreel, 2002.

Description:

1 videodisc (83 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

optical

video file

Summary:

"[Bayard Rustin] was one of the first 'freedom riders, ' an advisor to Dr. Martin Luther King and A. Philip Randolph, organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Intelligent, gregarious and charismatic, Rustin was denied his place in the limelight for one reason-- he was gay. His homosexuality forced him to play a background role in landmark events in the Black struggle ... [deals] with the interplay of personal and political in the life of a complex, multi-talented essential figure in the history of American radicalism"--Container.

Subjects:

Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987.

African American gay men -- Biography.

Gay men -- United States -- Biography.

African American men -- Biography.

African American civil rights workers -- Biography.

Genre:

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Documentary television programs.

Biographical television programs.

Other Author:

Kates, Nancy.