Conaway: The man behind it all, out loud and clear, and all ours in Memphis
Civil rights leader Bayard Rustin attends an event in New York on Dec. 14, 1970. (RF/AP file)
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway was a freelance columnist with The Daily Memphian from 2018 to 2025.
No one — no one — was more important to the Civil Rights Movement here and worldwide than Bayard Rustin.
While that statement is undeniably true, this question will probably follow for many of us:
Who?
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