This is an as-told-to essay based on a conversation with Walter Naegle, an artist and photographer who is the surviving partner of Bayard Rustin, the late American Civil Rights leader. The essay ...

Naegle was his partner for ten years ... Elizabethan songs – the same Bayard Rustin whose involvement in non-violent protests got him beaten. He was arrested more than 20 times and jailed.

TheGrio’s Jared Alexander caught up with the editor of “Bayard Rustin: A Legacy of Protest and Politics,” Michael G. Long, and Rustin’s surviving partner Walter Naegle days before the 60th ...

Bayard Rustin was one of those people ... The first person I reached out to was Bayard’s partner, Walter Naegle. With a biographical film, the main story is more difficult to find than the ...

Bayard Rustin, if he were still alive ... according to Walter Naegle, Rustin’s longtime partner and the executor of the Rustin estate. “Remember that phrase, ‘Don’t trust anyone over ...

By Tiffany Martinbrough As an adolescent, Bayard Rustin had many virtues ... in violation of Jim Crow laws, his partner, Walter Naegle, told me, and Rustin was arrested and beaten as a result.

Bayard Rustin, a trusted adviser to Martin Luther ... of his homosexuality and obliquely described Mr. Rustin’s longtime partner as his “administrative assistant and adopted son.” ...

WEST CHESTER, Pennsylvania (WPVI) -- The nation celebrated the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington on Monday, in which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led more than 200,000 people in a call for ...

A new film finally spotlights Bayard Rustin ... you were a weakling in an extreme degree.” Davis Platt, Rustin’s romantic partner at FOR, similarly requested that he refrain from sexual ...

Bayard Rustin was a civil rights leader who organized the 1963 March on Washington. Rustin was marginalized for his identity as a gay Black man, but continued to fight for equality. His surviving ...