Regarding your opening comment, “realised too late that he had been sold out by Bayard Rustin”, please see KING by Jonathan Eig ( he goes into pages of detail regarding Bayard Rustin). Also on a related subject matter, Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality, by Danielle S. Allen . Homo sapiens were born fully integrated into the worldwide human race. Finally, Eugenics, a fascist construct to advance skin color hatred that dates back to a 1491 Papal Bull (edict, law) that targeted North African Moors for human trafficking, is the ‘root’ of the USA-brand of racism. This leads me to a third must-read book by Robert Sussman’s THE MYTH OF RACE: The TROUBLING Persistence of an UNSCIENTIFIC IDEA.