A Question I have for Bernie Sanders

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17. actually there is independent proof that he was involved in civil rights back in the early 60's

Many legit ways to challenge Sanders, but making ludicrous, easily-debunked, false claims is not one (and I a NO Sanders fan, I think he would be a disaster in the general.)


Can Sanders' civil rights experience at U. of C. translate on campaign trail?

https://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-bernie-sanders-university-of-chicago-met-20150826-story.html



Bernie Sanders, right, a member of the Congress of Racial Equality steering committee, stands next to University of Chicago President George Beadle, who is speaking at a CORE meeting on housing sit-ins in 1962. (Special Collections Research Center / University of Chicago Library)


When Bernie Sanders attended the University of Chicago in the early 1960s, the campus was a bastion of political progressivism — one that nurtured the socialist positions the U.S. senator and presidential candidate now trumpets.

"The U. of C. had a reputation of radicalism during the 1950s. During the Red Scare, a number of U. of C. faculty members were accused of being communists," said Ray Gadke, a U. of C. librarian. "That was the generation before Bernie was here, but there was still that reputation of being a red school — a radical school — when he was here."

While some of Sanders' earliest political activism focused on civil rights issues plaguing black communities, he has stumbled during his presidential campaign when explaining his positions on the civil rights issues of the present. For some activists, Sanders' past organizing is not sufficient evidence that the Vermont senator best represents issues important in black communities. Sanders transferred to the U. of C. after a year at Brooklyn College and became involved in the school's chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality. He graduated in 1964 with a degree in political science and considerable experience in waging grass-roots campaigns.

As president of CORE, he spearheaded sit-ins, pickets and protests related to racial inequality, the most visible of which was two weeks of sit-ins at the office of university President George Beadle over segregationist policies at university-owned apartments in Hyde Park.

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Bernie Sanders's 1963 Protest Arrest (Video)

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000004222567/bernie-sanderss-1963-protest-arrest.html