Below is video footage shot by Jerry Temaner. In the summer of 1963, black families and students in the South Side of Chicago were boycotting proposed construction of mobile-home-style schools that were to be rolled into the black neighborhood. It was a clear case of separate and definitely not equal. Shaun King, now at the New York Daily News, explains where the footage comes from:
As a student at the nearby University of Chicago, Sanders served as chapter president of the Congress for Racial Equality at the university. A Chicago Tribune press clipping from August of 1963 shows that during a protest, right there on the corner where the mobile homes were being placed, Bernie Sanders was charged with resisting arrest and taken to jail. This isn't conjecture or revisionist history. Bernie Sanders was a student activist and was arrested during this protest.
Now, it appears obscure archival footage filmed on that very day by Temaner, one of the co-founders of Kartemquin Films, a legendary documentary film company in Chicago, shows the arrest of a young Bernie Sanders.
Here’s the clip.
It’s a short moment in time but it shows one thing. You can argue about whether or not you agree with Sanders or whether or not you think he is a viable candidate, etc, but attacking his history of advocacy is a dirty business.
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