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Interview Bayard Rustin, prominent Civil Rights and Gay Rights activist, speaking about the lack of integration and socialisation in America being a crisis and the issues facing Black Americans and contradictions in society "I think we are in a very severe crisis and a turning point because psychologically, the American Negro for hundreds of years has been frustrated and who has turned his aggression in on himself. He's no longer prepared to do that and to the degree that there is frustration through inadequate housing, schooling and jobs. From now on that frustration is going to be directed towards the white community. I think we are at a turning point also because heretofore, up until 1955, we were working for things which basically affected the Negro; public accommodations and the right to vote which all white people have. From '65 on, we are dealing with basic contradictions in American society and this society faces this crisis and it is not the Negro's crisis: are we going to socialise our institutions or are we not?", USA; 1967 (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