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November 3, 2023

At the Movies: ‘Rustin' with an outstanding Colman Domingo is a terrific look at March on Washington

By MARK KENNEDY
AP Entertainment Writer

The 1963 March on Washington drew an estimated 250,000 people from across the country — the largest march at that point in American history — and was the place where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech.

It likely wouldn't have happened without the work of a master strategist: Bayard Rustin, a gay Black socialist and pacifist-activist from Pennsylvania, whose close friendship with King was the engine in the early days of the Civil Rights Movement.


 
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