Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

In his own voice, the history of the civil right movement told by the black gay adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr. and the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Bayard Rustin, the famed openly-gay African American organizer, taught Martin Luther King, Jr. strategies of nonviolence during the Montgomery Bus Boycott, thereby launching the birth of the Civil Rights Movement.

Widely acclaimed as a founding father of modern black protest, Rustin reached his pinnacle of notoriety in 1963 …