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The University of Chicago sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois in 1962. It was because of segregation at the university. It was led by future United States senator of Vermont Bernie Sanders.

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  • Bernie Sanders and University of Chicago President George Beadle at Congress of Racial Equality Meeting on Housing Sit-Ins

    George Beadle and Sanders at the CORE meeting in Ida Noyes Hall, February 1962

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