On Thursday, Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) endorsed Hillary Clinton along with the Congressional Black Caucus PAC and slammed Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-VT) civil rights activism, saying he never met Sanders during the civil rights era. Sanders has noted that he participated in the March on Washington and was arrested while he was a student at the University of Chicago when he tried to desegregate housing at the university and the surrounding neighborhoods. “To be very frank, I never saw him. I never met him,” Lewis said in response to a question about Sanders’s civil rights advocacy. He pointed out that he met both Clintons during the civil rights era. Lewis noted that he was the chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966 and, “I was involved in the the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, the march from Selma to Montgomery and directed the Voter Education Project, but I met Hillary Clinton. I met President Clinton.” Lewis also said he knows the South since he was “I was born and grew up in rural Alabama. And during the height of the civil rights movement, I worked in 11 southern states and Texas.” He said he