The Complete True Story of the Netflix Movie Rustin Explained

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00:00Hi, welcome back to my channel, in this video, I will explain the the complete true story

00:04of the Netflix movie Rustin, so let's begin.

00:08Netflix's A Rustin A is all about the man behind the 1963 march on Washington for Jobs

00:12and Freedom, which many remember as the day Martin Luther King Jr. made his moving, I

00:16Have a Dream, speech.

00:19Directed by George C. Wolfe, the historical biopic film follows activist Bayard Rustin,

00:23who has a way of convincing people and a charm not everyone understands.

00:27He is a gay black man living in America at a time when racial segregation is accepted

00:31and homosexuality is a criminal offense.

00:34As this bothers him, he refuses to be a silent spectator when something is clearly wrong

00:38with society.

00:40Coleman Domingo holds his own as the titular character and is joined by Chris Rock and

00:44A.M.

00:45El-Amin in his efforts to tell Rustin's story.

00:47While Rustin has always been an activist, the movie chooses to focus more on the time

00:51right before the famous march and Rustin's attempts to contribute to the civil rights

00:54movement substantially at a time when his sexuality, race, and some past decisions are

00:59a major issue.

01:00It also explores his relationship with Martin Luther King Jr. during the movement and the

01:04role he played behind the scenes.

01:07This also makes us wonder how accurately the film has captured the true story of Rustin.

01:12Rustin is based on real events in the life of African-American civil rights leader and

01:15activist Bayard Rustin.

01:18Writers Julian Breese and Dustin Lance Black have paid careful attention to bringing Rustin

01:22to life through Domingo, who has apparently also managed to capture his mannerisms and

01:25way of speaking fluently.

01:27Despite the efforts, the film is intended for larger audiences and has taken just enough

01:31liberties to dramatize the events of Rustin's life that might not have been so impactful

01:35at the time he was alive.

01:37Moreover, former President and First Lady Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are the executive

01:42producers of the film, giving it much more impact.

01:45Rustin's contributions to the movement and many such social causes at the time were mostly

01:49forgotten or erased from history, mainly due to his previous ties with the Communist

01:53Party and his acceptance of his sexuality in the mid-1900s.

01:57But it was also largely because despite being a leader and ensuring that a 250,000-strong

02:02crowd stood before them for the March on Washington in August 1963, Rustin preferred to stay away

02:07from the limelight.

02:09He did not want to let his past decisions, which he was proud of, stand in the way of

02:12anyone in authority, canceling the movement or holding his identity against him and his

02:16colleagues.

02:18This is why it was only in 2013, when then-President Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of

02:23Freedom for his contributions, that his name was properly highlighted.

02:27Rustin was born in March 1912 to absent parents but wealthy maternal grandparents Julia and

02:32Jennifer Rustin, who raised him in Westchester, Pennsylvania.

02:35His biggest influence while growing up was his Quaker grandmother, who made him feel

02:39comfortable about his sexuality and introduced him to the concept of protesting against racial

02:43discrimination.

02:45Since then, aside from pursuing his education, he felt himself getting drawn towards activism.

02:50In all accounts of his story, Rustin was driven by his ideologies of equality for all human

02:55beings, which is why he refused to move to the back of the bus or follow similar discriminatory

02:59policies he was legally expected to follow as a black man at that time.

03:03He even briefly joined the Young Communist League in 1936 due to their stance on racial

03:07equality, a decision that came back to haunt him many times over in his later efforts.

03:12When they reversed their anti-war stance, Rustin left them but that brief association

03:16became one of the major reasons his connection with important political movements had to

03:19be severed, aside from his sexuality.

03:22Rustin didn't make any effort to hide that he was gay but didn't promote it either, since

03:26the opposition always found a way to hold that against him.

03:29For him, the civil rights movement was in no way connected to his sexuality and he wanted

03:33to keep making efforts to make a difference from a more general and wider race perspective.

03:38He went to jail on many occasions and ended up spending two years in prison during World

03:42War II either for his relationships with other men or for refusing to be treated as an inferior

03:47due to his race.

03:49He still unapologetically served his sentence since his ideals mattered a lot more to him.

03:54During his association with Martin Luther King Jr., he even advocated for non-violent

03:57peaceful protests, deeply inspired by the Gandhian principles.

04:01He went to India to learn more about their movement against British rule in 1948 and

04:06wanted to do the same in Africa.

04:08So, he took a trip to support West African independence movements as a member of the

04:12Fellowship of Reconciliation, F.O.R.

04:15In the early 1940s, Rustin and A. Philip Randolph attempted to conduct the First March to secure

04:20jobs for black people, which was stopped by then-President Franklin Roosevelt because

04:24of all the negative publicity related to violence.

04:27Later, in 1960, black leader Adam Clayton Powell Jr. threatened to expose a story suggesting

04:32a sexual relationship between Rustin and King.

04:35After that, Rustin was forced to step down amid these rumors.

04:39Even King didn't want to be discredited on moral grounds despite both of them denying

04:43these allegations.

04:44Nevertheless, Randolph brought him back in 1963 to serve as a major player in the March

04:49on Washington after the Birmingham police allegedly attacked children.

04:53Through his contacts, influence and the many such similar movements Rustin had organized

04:57before, even if they were not of this scale, he was their best option.

05:01He joined forces with King and Randolph again to organize the famous march.

05:06Hours before it, Rustin was still nervous, not knowing how many people would show up.

05:10It soon became an event that would go down in history as the reason the Civil Rights

05:14Act came into force in 1964.

05:17But Rustin only got to make a few statements after King and got his face on a magazine

05:21cover of Life magazine on September 6, 1963, before his contributions were forgotten after

05:26his death in 1987.

05:28That's all for now folks.

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