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Rustin
Overview
Activist Bayard Rustin faces racism and homophobia as he helps change the course of Civil Rights history by orchestrating the 1963 March on Washington.
Director and cast
- Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin
- Aml Ameen as Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Glynn Turman as A. Philip Randolph
- Chris Rock as Roy Wilkins
- Gus Halper as Tom
- Johnny Ramey as Elias Taylor
- CCH Pounder as Dr. Anna Hedgeman
- Michael Potts as Cleve Robinson
- Audra McDonald as Ella Baker
- Jeffrey Wright as Rep. Adam Clayton Powell
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