Bernie leads a multi-week sit-in against segregated housing at the University of Chicago in 1962

[Cheese Sandwich]

CORE is the Congress of Racial Equality

Backed by student government, CORE voted in a spirited mass meeting in the lounge of the New Dorm (later Woodward Court) to try a different tactic. The next day, at a noon rally at the rear steps of the Administration Building, Bernard Sanders, chairman of the social action committee of CORE, said, “We feel it is an intolerable situation, when Negro and white students of the University cannot live together in university owned apartments.” Then some 33 people, most of them white students, strode into the building, took the elevator to the fifth floor, and reclined on the floor along the walls of the reception room adjoining Beadle’s office: a sit-in.

http://mag.uchicago.edu/law-policy-society/political-education



Seen today on the front page of reddit (link)

[daleanime]

1. Cool!

When I was only 2 Bernie was already fighting the good fight.

[Enthusiast]

3. Yay, Bernie!

[LiberalElite]

4. Suggest

you post this in GD too.

[AgingAmerican]

5. His consistency is his greatest asset

So much so that he only needs notes when making speeches. Jimmy Carter did the same when he was president.

[appalachiablue]

6. Bernie rocks, always on the good side for 40 years or more.

[gregcrawford]

7. Take THAT...

... you trolls who say Bernie "isn't strong on race!"

He's been on the side of good longer than some of them have been alive. I was still in high school at the time, but it was the same year that my parents arranged for some Black friends from New York to get married in our historic small-town church, and hold the reception at our house. Some neighbors crossed us off their Christmas card lists, but they weren't people worth knowing, anyway.

[passiveporcupine]

8. Was just going to post this

You beat me to it.

This is the real Bernie here, and he hasn't changed one iota!

This is the Bernie bounce!

[MissDeeds]

15. Yes, and he didn't need a team of advisers

or a focus group to tell him what was right. Bernie has lead from a point of fairness and integrity his whole life, long before he had political aspirations. Imagine that.

[DrBulldog]

9. Meanwhile, at this time, what demonstrations was Hillary leading?

. . . Hmmm, give me a minute . . . o.k., o.k., I just need a bit more time on this one . . .

[marble falls]

10. She was leading Bill Clinton around.

[antiquie]

11. She was 15.

In the spring of 1962, Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most controversial men in America. One night in Chicago's Orchestra Hall after delivering a stirring speech on civil rights and the future of America, he shook hands with a standout 15-year-old with conservative parents, Hillary Rodham.

here

Just the fact; I am ready for Bernie.

[zeemike]

12. She was a Goldwater girl and a Republican.

But that don't count and neither does Sanders civil rights work according to some..

[LuvLoogie]

14. In 1962 Bernie Sanders was 21...

Hillary Rodham was a young teenager living with her Republican parents.

Hillary Rodham turned 21 in 1968. Here's an article describing where she was, what she was doing in 1968.

http://www.salon.com/2008/04/08/hillary_1968/

What were you doing in 1968? Let me guess. Hmmmm....(not much probably)...now give me a minute....

[Kalidurga]

13. But, but, but... that was...

more than 40 years ago, plus I posted a screed that wasn't calling Bernie a racist, yet totally was...saying "that's not good enough, Bernie." cuz it's totally racist to not mention race specifically in every single speech ever made on the issues we face, even if you mention many many issues that effect AA people disproportionately and say how you propose to make it better. *an argument from a Hillary supporter which in no way reflects the view of this poster.