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PBS Online Film Festival
2015 Festival | Counter
Season 2015
Episode 18
Counter is a short film about Martin Luther King Jr.’s strategic advisor, Bayard Rustin. Set in 1942 Indianapolis, Bayard Rustin, recently fired from the ranks of a rapidly approaching march, commits a reckless one-person sit-in at a local diner run by a rare female business owner. She unsympathetically refuses to serve Bayard a burger. Presented by National Black Programming Consortium.
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