Homophobia Delayed Civil Rights for Black People

The finally told story of Bayard Rustin.

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There are a lot of reasons many people don’t know the names of Black civil rights giants aside from Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.

Some were killed before they made their mark, like Reverend George Lee; voter registration organizers Lamar Smith and Herbert Lee; and young…