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FilmWorks United International Working Class Film & Video Festival<\/em><\/p>\n

Brother Outsider – 2003 (83 min.) By Nancy Kates, Bennett Singer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Long before Martin Luther King, Jr. became a national figure, Bayard Rustin routinely put his body \u2014 and his life \u2014 on the line as a crusader for racial justice. Rustin\u2019s commitment to pacifism and his visionary advocacy of Gandhian nonviolence made him a pioneer in the 1940s, and captured King\u2019s imagination in the 1950s. In 1963, with more than 20 years of organizing experience behind him, Rustin brought his unique skills to the crowning glory of his civil rights career: his work organizing the historic March on Washington, the biggest protest America had ever witnessed.
\nBut Rustin was also seen as a political liability. He was openly gay during the fiercely homophobic era of the 40s and 50s; as a result, he was frequently shunned by the very civil rights movement he helped create. The compelling new film Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin chronicles Rustin\u2019s complex life story, a tale of race, prejudice, and idealism at the heart of 20th century America. Though he had to overcome the stereotypes associated with being an illegitimate son, an African American, a gay man and a one-time member of the Communist Party, Rustin \u2014 the ultimate outsider \u2014 eventually became a public figure and respected political insider. He not only shaped civil rights movement strategy as a longtime advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., but was known and respected by numerous U.S. Presidents and foreign leaders.
\nThe screening will be followed by audience Q&A.<\/p>\n

Sponsored by Gray Panthers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Film – Long before Martin Luther King, Jr. became a national figure, Bayard Rustin routinely put his body \u2014 and his life \u2014 on the line as a crusader for racial justice. The compelling new film Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin chronicles Rustin\u2019s complex life story, a tale of race, prejudice, and idealism at the heart of 20th century America. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[22,3],"class_list":["post-91","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-07-16-2019","tribe_events_cat-film","cat_07-16-2019","cat_film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/91\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}