#BernieYearInReview Kickoff at Navy Pier in Chicago, March 3 My time at the University of Chicago, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, changed my life and helped shape me into the person I am today. In 1963 I was a student at the University of Chicago. It had been nine years since the Brown v Board of Education decision, but the school officials in Chicago had still refused to meaningfully desegregate the city’s public schools. Instead of putting black children in those empty classrooms, the school officials decided to put old trailers on the black school grounds. These trailers were a monstrosity. Students would boil in the heat, and freeze in the cold. One day, many of us went to the spot where they planned to put the trailers. We were corralled by a police line and told not to cross that line. Well, some of us did. And, of course, we were arrested and thrown into paddy wagons. We spent that night in jail, until we were bailed out the next morning by the NAACP. My activit...