Saturday, February 27, 2016

RSN: Bernie Sanders and the Congress of Racial Equality, Chicago 1961-63




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FOCUS: Bernie Sanders and the Congress of Racial Equality, Chicago 1961-63 
Bernie Sanders as a young activist at the University of Chicago. (photo: unknown) 
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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