The Classics Collection

Rustin: A Film by George C. Wolfe

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Rustin: A Film by George C. Wolfe sheds light on Bayard Rustin, the unsung hero behind the 1963 March on Washington, directed by George C. Wolfe and featuring Colman Domingo. Rustin, a fearless activist, challenged authority without apology and made history, only to be forgotten. The film, produc...
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Thulani Davis is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar who is an associate professor and a Nellie Y. McKay Fellow in the African American Studies Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has had a long career in journalism while creating work in poetry and theater that includes plays and libretti for four operas. She has written the scripts for several award-winning documentaries, including Louis Massiah’s W. E. B. Du Bois: A Biography in Four Voices (1996) and Massiah’s short film In Ragtime: James Reese Europe (2011), and she developed the concept for Blackside’s series I’ll Make Me a World: A Century of African American Arts (1999). She also wrote the script for the narrative film Paid in Full (2002). She is the author of six books, the most recent of which is The Emancipation Circuit: Black Activism Forging a Culture of Freedom (2022).

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The Classics Collection

Rustin: A Film by George C. Wolfe

€120

This story is important. This story matters.

— Colman Domingo

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Page count

240 pages

Number of illustrations

over 150

Language

English

Released on

November 2023

Dimensions

W 25 x L 28 x D 3 cm

Cover materials

Silk hardcover

ISBN

9781649803160

Weight

1.633 kg

Author

Thulani Davis

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