Professor Gordon Rustin and his team tested the drug at Mount Vernon Hospital, west London.

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Rustin could barely conceal his contempt for the posturing of such radicals as Stokely Carmichael.

ECONOMIST: The struggle for civil rights

Yet when he worked to keep white liberals in the civil-rights coalition, Rustin was labelled an Uncle Tom by younger, less patient blacks.

ECONOMIST: The struggle for civil rights

His biographer, an historian at the University of Illinois, has done a wonderful job in sifting out the truth of Rustin's life from the fiction, and in celebrating the man's extraordinary physical and moral courage.

ECONOMIST: The struggle for civil rights

Less admirably, Rustin was also a fantasist.

ECONOMIST: The struggle for civil rights

That's not to say the work is done but rather Bayard Rustin, and Harvey Milk and Del Martin and the countless souls who have since moved on, did not fight for this notion of full equality, in vain.

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