Bayard Rustin: Troubles I've seen - Anderson,J

This titanic figure of the civil rights movement was kicked out of every college he ever attended. His friend, Midge Decter, reports that on a flight to Madrid, Rustin, as a grown man, spent the whole time shooting spitballs at her. On his 75th birthday the great civil rights leader confided in her that he wanted engraved on his tombstone: ''This nigger had fun.''