When MLK gave that famous speech in 1963...
Bernie Sanders was there:
Burlington Free Press: How had you originally gotten involved in civil rights causes? What started it all for you?
Bernie Sanders: It was a question for me of just basic justice — the fact that it was not acceptable in America at that point that you had large numbers of African Americans who couldn’t vote, who couldn’t eat in a restaurant, whose kids were going to segregated schools, who couldn’t get hotel accommodations, living in segregated housing. That was clearly a major American injustice and something that had to be dealt with.
BFP: Did you realize at the time, as you were on your way, that the March on Washington would be as big or significant as it was?
BS: There were hopes that a huge number of people would come out and that it would play a role in moving the government to the Voting Rights Acts, other efforts to end segregation and Jim Crow in America. So that was the hope, and I think when we got there and saw so many people, I think we felt very positive and kind of had the belief that something important was going to come from that.
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20130824/NEWS07/308240004/-1/rss?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&gcheck=1
He was concerned about civil/voter rights 50 years ago.
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