Time: "The Radical Education of Bernie Sanders "
NB: It's hard to find a more committed champion of civil rights, and with so long a history of taking action.
-- He became leader of an NAACP rally called the Congress of Racial Equality at a time when most civil rights activists were black.
-- He was arrested while demonstrating for desegregated public schools in Chicago.
--In his second year at college in 1962, the 20-year-old from Brooklyn stood on the steps of University of Chicago administration building and railed in the wind against the college’s housing segregation policy:
“We feel it is an intolerable situation, when Negro and white students of the university cannot live together in university owned apartments,”
Sam Frizell @Sam_Frizell May 26, 2015
Bernie Sanders, member of the steering committee, stands next to George Beadle, University of Chicago president, who is speaking at a Committee On Racial Equality meeting on housing sit-ins. 1962.
Bernie Sanders was a prominent local activist in college, and not much has changed. Bernie Sanders won the first election he ever lost.
It was the late 1950s, and Sanders was still a teenager, running to be class president at James Madison High School in Brooklyn, New York. His platform promised to raise scholarship money for kids in Korea orphaned during the recent war. “It was an unusual thing for a person so young to be involved in,” remembers Larry Sanders, Bernie’s older brother. When the votes were tallied, the future Senator from Vermont fell short, coming in third, but the outcome set a precedent he would love to repeat on the national stage. The winner adopted the Korean scholarship idea and made it happen.
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In Chicago, Sanders threw himself into activism—civil rights, economic justice, volunteering, organizing. “I received more of an education off campus than I did in the classroom,” Sanders says. By his 23rd birthday, Sanders had worked for a meatpackers union, marched for civil rights in Washington D.C., joined the university socialists and been arrested at a civil rights demonstration. He delivered jeremiads to young crowds. The police called him an outside agitator, Sanders said. He was a sloppy student, and the dean asked him to take a year off. He inspired his classmates. “He knows how to talk to people now,” said Robin Kaufman, a student who knew Sanders in 1960s Chicago, “and he knew how to do it then.” He was a radical before it was cool.
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The civil rights movement also became a home for him. He became leader of an NAACP ally called the Congress of Racial Equality at a time when most civil rights activists were black. He was arrested while demonstrating for desegregated public schools in Chicago. (No big deal, says Sanders: “You can go outside and get arrested, too!” he jokes. “It’s not that hard if you put your mind to it.”) He once walked around Chicago putting up fliers protesting police brutality. After half an hour, he realized a police car was following him, taking down every paper he’d up, one by one. “Are these yours?” he remembers the officer telling him, holding up the stack of the fliers.
Read more at Time Magazine
http://time.com/3896500/bernie-sanders-vermont-campaign-radical/
SANDERS:
Rated 93% by the ACLU, indicating a pro-civil rights voting record.
Rated 100% by the HRC, indicating a pro-gay-rights stance.
Rated 97% by the NAACP, indicating a pro-affirmative-action stance.
There's not a better candidate on Civil Rights, and if there is please identify him or her.
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because a talking point that is getting pushed very, very hard on DU is that Sanders doesn't care about social justice.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12803233
Here he is on women's rights:
that seems seems to happen a lot lately. 
Unfortunately, some asshole(s) with a gun took him away from us
Maybe it's time.
