Many people either know little about, or have never heard of Bayard Rustin. This civil rights activist and leader learned from A. Philip Randolph, was instrumental in organizing the 1963 March on Washington, advised Martin Luther King Jr. on non-violence, helped create the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and co-founded the A. Philip Randolph Institute.

Why is he so obscure? Due to his identity as an outed, then openly gay man, Bayard deliberately stepped out of the circle of fame and acknowledgement that surrounded America's civil rights leaders - so that America's prejudice towards the LGBT+ community wouldn't have a negative effect upon the movement.

Know him now.