This individual helped found the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE), was a major organizer of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, was involved in the formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and coordinated the 1963 March on Washington; right down to the number and position of portable toilets.
If you think it's Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., you're mistaken.
Bayard Rustin was the man behind the man, and the man literally behind the Movement.
Why don't we know more about him? It's possible that his association with Communism and his unapologetic homosexuality had something to do with that, but I'll let you be the judge.
Read about Bayard Rustin in Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
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