Bernie Sanders on Civil Rights and racism -- personal history and voting record



...as a college student he organized sit-ins against segregation, worked for a union, protested police brutality and attended the 1963 March on Washington. Throughout that time, the central theme of his life has never wavered.



...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.



...The civil rights movement also became a home for him. He became leaders 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.



...On a frigid Tuesday afternoon in January, 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, the young bespectacled student told the few-dozen classmates gathered there. Then he led them into the building in protest, and camped the night outside the presidents office. It was Chicagos first civil rights sit-in.

http://time.com/3896500/bernie-sanders-vermont-campaign-radical/#3896500/bernie-sanders-vermont-campaign-radical/



Civil Rights Record

http://www.ontheissues.org/Domestic/Bernie_Sanders_Civil_Rights.htm

Bushs tracking citizens phone call patterns is illegal

Voted YES on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act.

Voted NO on Constitutionally defining marriage as one-man-one-woman

Voted NO on making the PATRIOT Act permanent

Voted NO on Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage

Voted NO on banning gay adoptions in DC

Voted NO on ending preferential treatment by race in college admissions

Constitutional Amendment for equal rights by gender -- co-sponsored

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

Recognize Juneteenth as historical end of slavery -- co-sponsored

ENDA: prohibit employment discrimination for gays.

Prohibit sexual-identity discrimination at schools

Endorsed as "preferred" by The Feminist Majority indicating pro-women's rights.

Enforce against wage discrimination based on gender -- co-sponsored Paycheck Fairness Act

Enforce against anti-gay discrimination in public schools -- co-sponsored

Re-introduce the Equal Rights Amendment



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