Time magazine published a story last November claiming that photos of Sanders distributed by his campaign do not actually depict the Vermont senator, but rather show fellow University of Chicago classmate and activist Bruce Rappaport.
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As Clinton tries to paint Sanders as a latecomer to civil rights, she would do well to hope that people don’t start highlighting what she was up to in her youth.
A Chicago Tribune archival photo of a young man being arrested in 1963 at a South Side protest is Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, his campaign has confirmed, bolstering the candidate’s narrative about his civil rights activism. The video shows his arrest on August 12, 1963 while protesting against the segregation of Chicago Public Schools in Englewood.
Recently, Sanders’ rep took a hit when civil rights icon and Georgia congressman John Lewis, said he never saw Sanders during the 1960s when Sanders was working on Lewis’ Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
The photograph’s negative was discovered in the Chicago Tribune archives, according to Tribune photo editor Marianne Mather.
At the time, Sanders was a 21-year-old student at the University of Chicago.
It was Sanders himself who confirmed it was him in the video, according to his campaign. The other man is no longer alive. These trailers were used by the city to deal with overcrowding in black schools, thereby preventing integration of black students into less-densely populated white schools.
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Sanders, who was a leader of the Congress of Racial Equality, was found guilty of resisting arrest. News accounts from the time had Sanders leading protests over racial inequality.
