What he overcame: a fine new biography tells the story of Bayard Rustin, the great, gay hero of the American civil rights movement.(book excerpt)

The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) | September 2, 2003 | Copyright

"Who is Bayard Rustin?" That's the first question posed by acclaimed gay historian John D'Emilio in Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin (Free Press, $35). An eminent scholar who also happens to teller, D'Emilio has written the most comprehensive biography yet of Rustin, the African-American activist who organized the 1963 March on Washington and mentored Martin Luther King Jr.--but who has since faded into obscurity while King has been exalted.

How could so formidable a man as Rustin be overlooked to this day in our pantheon of civil rights heroes? He ...

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