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Interview Bayard Rustin, prominent Civil Rights and Gay Rights activist, criticizes the Black Power Movement and suggests its intentions and mission would not prove to be beneficial or realistic, USA; 1967 "Black Power means so many things to so many different people but rather than defining it, I would like to define from what it springs. In a situation where in housing, schools and jobs, you cannot get victories, the more extreme elements in the Negro community turn in on themselves to find victories in Negritude, in cursing Whites, in saying that they don't need them, in talking about setting up Black states. Now the problem with Black Power is that it is purely a psychological purgative. It has no program in regards to housing, schools, jobs, health, police nor anything else and the people who come together around it are so diverse that if they had program, they would have to split over that program because they could not congeal" (LDC5367E - AEVZ001J) Bayard Rustin was an openly gay man and a central figure in the Civil Rights movement acting as an advisor to Martin Luther King Jr