This short documentary connects the Black Civil Rights Movement with Marriage Equality.

Marriage Equality PBS Presents

Premiered June 10, 2012
Marriage Equality

The fifteen-minute documentary interweaves archival footage and photos with contemporary interviews to illuminate events as to how the Gay Marriage movement became a Civil Rights issue. At the center of our story is Massachusetts Representative Byron Rushing, a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement who took the campaign for Same Sex Marriage into African American communities.

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