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Nancy Kates is the recipient of the KQED/Working Assets Filmmaking for Change Award.  Nancy received a cash grant of $10,000 for use in any phase of production and, when ready, will receive her on-line edit on KQED’s Avid Symphony free of charge.  

 

Early in 1956, Bayard Rustin traveled from New York City to Montgomery, Alabama, to assist with the newly launched boycott of the city's segregated bus system. Upon his arrival, he discovered guns inside Martin Luther King, Jr.'s house and armed guards posted outside King's doors. Rustin persuaded boycott leaders to adopt complete nonviolence, teaching King about Mohandas Gandhi's vision and strategy of civil disobedience. Later called the "American Gandhi," Rustin is credited with helping to mold the younger King into an international symbol of peace and nonviolence, and with organizing the triumphant 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Yet this "Socrates of the civil rights movement" was silenced, threatened, beaten, arrested, imprisoned and fired from important leadership positions and sometimes because of his uncompromising political beliefs, but more often because he was a gay man in a fiercely homophobic era. BROTHER OUTSIDER will present a comprehensive documentary portrait of Bayard Rustin, focusing on his political activism for peace, racial equality, economic justice and international human rights.

 

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