Rustin (2023) on Netflix
PG-1320231h 46mBiographyDramaHistory
In 1960, activist Bayard Rustin pushes Martin Luther King Jr. toward a protest before the Democratic National Convention. Three years later, cut off from King, he plans a march on Washington.
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Plot summary
Bayard Rustin, committed to nonviolent action, presses Martin Luther King Jr. to head a demonstration before the 1960 Democratic National Convention. Uneasy about King's growing fame and about Rustin's influence over him, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and NAACP leader Roy Wilkins warn that they will make public a claim that King and the openly gay Rustin are involved, and Rustin steps down from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Three years on, separated from King, he finds younger activists, his assistant Tom Kahn among them, ready to take up his methods. With A. Philip Randolph, who organized earlier campaigns that ended segregation in the armed forces, Rustin works on a large march on Washington that Wilkins still opposes.
Cast
- Jordan-Amanda Hallas Charlene
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Rustin (2023)
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- Lenny Kravitz wrote and performed the original song "Road to Freedom" for Rustin. Director George C. Wolfe asked for trombones, having become fascinated by them while filming Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and Trombone Shorty was brought in to contribute to the song.
