Aaaaaaand the Berners are already attacking Civil Rights icon John Lewis ...

[George II]

36. The first time Sanders ventured across the Mason Dixon line was in August 1963, when he did so....

....for that one day to ATTEND the March on Washington as one of 250,000 others in this photograph. He wasn't on the platform, he was nowhere near MLK Jr. or the other civil rights leaders, he was down amongst the crowd far away.



The next time he was "south" of the Mason Dixon Line wasn't even in the US, it was when he was Mayor about 20 years later and he visited Nicaragua, where trashed the United States.

I don't know that he had any documented visits to America's "Deep South" at all, just campaign events decades later. He surely wasn't at either of the "Bloody Sunday" commemorative gatherings at the Edmund Pettus Bridge earlier this year. For the first one he was hosting a rock concert in the LA area.

No, other than a sit-in when he was in college, where he was fined $25, he never put his life on the line like John Lewis or any of the other Civil Rights leaders.