A Title Willingly Surrendered

In the summer of 1963, Bayard Rustin faced an impossible task: organize the largest demonstration in American history in just eight weeks. Working from a small headquarters at 170 West 130th Street in Harlem, Rustin coordinated every detail for what would become the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28. He arranged over two thousand buses, chartered trains, organized four thousand volunteer marshals, and planned food, water, and medical stations for a quarter of a million people descending on the National Mall.…