| Description |
1 DVD (84 min.) : DVD video, sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
012400 |
| Description |
digital optical |
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NTSC |
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video file DVD video |
| System Details |
DVD. |
| Performer |
Voice of Bayard Rustin, Erick Todd Dellums. |
| Credits |
Music composed by B. Quincy Griffin ; director of photography, Robert Shepard ; editors, Veronica Selver, Rhonda Collins. |
| Note |
Originally produced in 2002. |
| Awards |
8 best documentary awards; 7 audience favorite awards; Sundance Film Festival, Official Selection; GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary. |
| Summary |
A documentary examining the life of Bayard Rustin who, although one of the first "freedom riders," an adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and A. Philip Randolph, and an organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, was forced to play a background role in landmark civil rights events because he was homosexual. |
| Language |
Closed-captioned. |
| Subject |
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987.
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Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987. |
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African American gay men -- Biography.
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African American gay men. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Gay men -- United States -- Biography.
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Gay men. |
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United States. |
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African American men -- Biography.
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African American men. |
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African American civil rights workers -- Biography.
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African American civil rights workers. |
| Genre/Form |
Documentary films.
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Documentary films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Nonfiction films.
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Biographical films.
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Biographical films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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| Subject |
African American gay men. |
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Gay men. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987, interviewee (expression)
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Kates, Nancy, director, producer.
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Singer, Bennett L., director, producer.
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Griffin, B. Quincy, composer (expression)
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Shepard, Robert, director of photography.
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Selver, Veronica, editor of moving image work.
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Collins, Rhonda, editor of moving image work.
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Dellums, Erik Todd, 1964- actor.
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Independent Television Service, production company.
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National Black Programming Consortium, production company.
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Question Why Films, production company.
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California Newsreel (Firm), publisher.
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| Added Title |
Life of Bayard Rustin |
| Standard No. |
094922901767 |
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