FOCUS: Bernie Sanders and the Congress of Racial Equality, Chicago 1961-63
Sara Burnett, Associated Press
Burnett writes: "Bernie Sanders became active in the campus chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality after arriving in Chicago in the fall of 1961 and before the academic year ended was voted the group's chairman. In 1963, two weeks before Martin Luther King Jr.'s march on Washington, Sanders was arrested at a demonstration against segregation in Chicago schools."
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Sara Burnett, Associated Press
Burnett writes: "Bernie Sanders became active in the campus chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality after arriving in Chicago in the fall of 1961 and before the academic year ended was voted the group's chairman. In 1963, two weeks before Martin Luther King Jr.'s march on Washington, Sanders was arrested at a demonstration against segregation in Chicago schools."
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