Bayard Rustin: The Invisible Activist

by Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle and Michael Long

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers —Bayard Rustin

To many, the civil rights movement brings to mind protests, marches, boycotts, and freedom rides. They often think of people like Martin Luther King, Jr. or Rosa Parks. They seldom think of Bayard Rustin.

The Invisible Activist is the biography of a gay, black civil rights leader.