What Sanders Actually Did in the Civil Rights Movement (from Mother Jones)

[pat_k]

Opps. Originally posted in wrong discussion (GD)

Mother Jones
Here's What Bernie Sanders Actually Did in the Civil Rights Movement
--By Time Murphy | Thu Feb 11 2016

...most of his work was in and around Hyde Park, where he became involved with the campus chapter of CORE shortly after transferring from Brooklyn College in 1961. During Sanders' first year in Chicago, a group of apartment-hunting white and black students had discovered that off-campus buildings owned by the university were refusing to rent to black students, in violation of the school's policies. CORE organized a 15-day sit-in at the administration building, which Sanders helped lead. (James Farmer, who co-founded CORE and had been a Freedom Rider with Lewis, came to the University of Chicago that winter to praise the activists' work.) The protest ended when George Beadle, the university's president, agreed to form a commission to study the school's housing policies.

Sanders was one of two students from CORE appointed to the commission...

That spring, with Sanders as its chairman, the university chapter of CORE merged with the university chapter of SNCC. Sanders announced plans to take the fight to the city of Chicago, and in the fall of 1962 he followed through, organizing picketers at a Howard Johnson in Cicero...

Sanders left his leadership role at the organization not long afterward... But he continued his activism with CORE and SNCC. In August of 1963, not long after returning to Chicago from the March on Washington, Sanders was charged with resisting arrest after protesting segregation at a school on the city's South Side. He was later fined $25, according to the Chicago Tribune...

[kath]

1. More about Bernie's ARREST RECORD and other activities here:

In Chicago, Sanders threw himself into activism—civil rights, economic justice, volunteering, organizing. “I received more of an education off campus than I did in the classroom,” Sanders says. By his 23rd birthday, Sanders had worked for a meatpackers union, marched for civil rights in Washington D.C., joined the university socialists and been arrested at a civil rights demonstration. He delivered jeremiads to young crowds. The police called him an outside agitator, Sanders said. He was a sloppy student, and the dean asked him to take a year off. He inspired his classmates. “He knows how to talk to people now,” said Robin Kaufman, a student who knew Sanders in 1960s Chicago, “and he knew how to do it then.” He was a radical before it was cool.
...

The civil rights movement also became a home for him. He became leaders of an NAACP ally called the Congress of Racial Equality at a time when most civil rights activists were black. He was arrested while demonstrating for desegregated public schools in Chicago. (No big deal, says Sanders: “You can go outside and get arrested, too!” he jokes. “It’s not that hard if you put your mind to it.”) He once walked around Chicago putting up fliers protesting police brutality. After half an hour, he realized a police car was following him, taking down every paper he’d up, one by one. “Are these yours?” he remembers the officer telling him, holding up the stack of the fliers.
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http://time.com/3896500/bernie-sanders-vermont-campaign-radical/

Thanks to Cheese Sandwich, who first posted this to U back in June: http://www.democraticunderground.com/128017387

[jfern]

2. You mean he waited until 1963 to protest police brutality against blacks?

Not good enough, Bernie!

[kath]

3. And he didn't join CORE until he was 21!!

as a white guy. In 1961.

[Tanuki]

23. "He delivered jeremiads to young crowds."

At least he's consistent.

[SamKnause]

4. I have a post with 19 things Bernie has done for

civil rights and minority rights.

It is not getting much attention.

It is an excellent article !!!

[Live and Learn]

5. I missed it. Can you share the link? I'd love to see it. nt

[SamKnause]

6. It is on the Latest Threads page.

If you like it will you please spread it on Facebook and other sites.

[Live and Learn]

7. Found it. Great list. Kicked, rec'd, bookmarked and shared on facebook.

Plus, I am going to print it out and have it in a flyer format to give out. Thank you.

[SamKnause]

8. Thank you so very much !!!!

[Live and Learn]

9. Thank you! I'd give you a heart but I think a Bernie donation would do you better. nt

[SamKnause]

11. Oh that made me SMILE.

Thank you.

[Live and Learn]

14. Back at you.

You are welcome and thanks for the smile.

[Unknown Beatle]

22. Please post a link.

I want to do the same as you, print it out in flyer format and hand them out.

[pat_k]

12. kicked and rec'd -- it is an excellent article.

Also, I just came across the following (don't know how I missed it last week)

Ex-NAACP Head Ben Jealous: Sanders is Most Consistent Candidate Tackling Racism, Militarism & Greed

[Live and Learn]

15. +1000 nt

[silvershadow]

16. would be easier to find if you had posted to your journal. nt

[uponit7771]

19. People have posted just as meany things from HIllary in regards to women and children and

... SBS camp consummatly dismisses them.

Why is it now important that someones bonafides in and area is important?!

[mhatrw]

10. I never saw him.

Of course, I wasn't born yet.

[Uncle Joe]

13. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, pat_k.

[Major Hogwash]

17. Kicked and recommended.

I'm starting to get a little "berned up" about this nonsense.

[uponit7771]

18. OK, great... it looks like its NOT ok to minimize someones record of progressiveness right?

Even Hillary's?!!?

Some people will think or respond with "well Hillary doesn't have a progressive record"

Well hell, then neither does Sanders have a civil rights one either if we're just going to ignore the good these people have done.

What's that saying about the goose and the Sanders... or gander!?

[cali]

20. Great article below

<snip>

In his first year at Brooklyn College, Bernie joined the campus chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), where he helped lead a 15 day sit-in at the school administration in protest of some off-campus buildings owned by the university that were refusing to rent to black students.

The administration caved, agreeing to form a commission to address the school’s housing policies. Bernie was given a position on this commission, and when it looked like university president George Beadle was going to back out on his promise, Bernie wrote the following scathing editorial in the student paper, calling on other students to voice their displeasure with the school’s administration:


He became the university chairman of CORE, and he then went on to picket a restaurant chain for arresting black demonstrators who were trying to eat there. He was actually so involved in his activism that his grades suffered, and he had to relinquish his leadership position.

Still, he stayed involved with CORE throughout college and was even arrested for protesting the segregation of a South Side Chicago school.


<snip>


http://usuncut.com/news/john-lewis-bernie-sanders-civil-rights-movement/

[renate]

26. thank you

I've been trying to be consistent about saying that, while I support Bernie wholeheartedly, I'd vote for Hillary if she were the nominee--and really it would take a nuclear war to keep me from voting for any Democratic nominee--but the more I hear about Bernie the more I like him. A LOT. And the more I hear about Clinton-bots, the less I like them... but I have to hope that they're working independently and not at her direction.

Why on EARTH would a real Democrat smear or negate the work that Bernie has been doing for decades? I am... disappointed.

[Enthusiast]

21. Kicked and recommended!

[Duppers]

24. I posted this article in 3 threads

yesterday with only one response.

It's great to see it have a thread of its own.

Big K & R!

Thank you, pat_k.

[pat_k]

25. :)