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In reply to the discussion: Civil Rights Hero John Lewis Slams Bernie Sanders [View all]Botany
(77,581 posts)In the '60s at the University of Chicago, where he transferred after a year at Brooklyn College, he studied psychology and took on leadership roles in the radical political scene. "When I went to the University of Chicago, I began to understand the futility of liberalism," he told the Los Angeles Times in 1991. According to Chicago magazine, he helped lead a sit-in against racially segregated campus housing, and worked as an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. In 1963, he took his first trip to the nation's capital to march in Martin Luther King Jr.'s seismic "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom."
http://mic.com/articles/118212/the-story-of-how-bernie-sanders-became-famous-will-make-you-love-him-even-more#.tmwgMRSae

BTW I don't think Hillary voted for Goldwater in 1964 because she would have been too young to vote.