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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Bernie Sanders Civil Rights Photographer was Danny Lyons - more Bernie pics [View all]Jarqui
(10,123 posts)45. No he wasn't arrested from this
This sit in was about segregation and discrimination in student living quarters that prohibited blacks living with whites (something like that)
I think it helped lead to the dean asking him to take time off school
Sanders was arrested while demonstrating for desegregated public schools in Chicago in 1962. (a different cause and protest related to civil rights)
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Bernie Sanders Civil Rights Photographer was Danny Lyons - more Bernie pics [View all]
Jarqui
Feb 2016
OP
It won't make a bit of difference. He is using the tactic of throwing shit and then running.
rhett o rick
Feb 2016
#123
Lewis damaged his own reputation by his own actions without any help from me.
Waiting For Everyman
Feb 2016
#153
So does he still believe that there's no difference between Republicans and Democrats
dlwickham
Feb 2016
#129
I love and admire Congressman Lewis. He deserves his iconic status. If not him, who?
in_cog_ni_to
Feb 2016
#51
that wasn't the point, it was the passive aggressive implication that he planted. nt
m-lekktor
Feb 2016
#25
So if the Clinton camp Swift boats Bernie and then she wins the primary we are just supposed
jalan48
Feb 2016
#15
Bernie is the real deal. First sit-in in the North. Get that? So what if he wasn't in the South?
thereismore
Feb 2016
#30
The boatneck sweater in these photos is the same. Bezos and his crew are liars devoid of honor.
gregcrawford
Feb 2016
#71
There are two students in the new photo and the student on the left looks more like
ucrdem
Feb 2016
#44
At this link is a lovely photo of John Lewis from 1963, by Danny Lyon who took the Bernie photos
Bluenorthwest
Apr 2016
#157
THANK YOU! Is it CLEAR NOW? Bernie IS NOT a liar, like someone else we know.
in_cog_ni_to
Feb 2016
#53
Maybe we should say thanks to HRC/Brock. Bernie is not the boastful type and
ALBliberal
Feb 2016
#58
We need to know the people who changed the names on that photograph and why
EndElectoral
Feb 2016
#60
There is one thing that has to be remembered. Hillary is an establishment candidate, with
LiberalArkie
Feb 2016
#65
Yep! And a big Fuck You Once Again to the Corrupt Corporate Clinton Mainstream Media.
Arugula Latte
Feb 2016
#128
"...persons went into the archives of the University of Chicago and changed captions..."
Spitfire of ATJ
Feb 2016
#110
It had to have been done electronically, which may have produced a timestamp.
FourScore
Feb 2016
#120