 Civil rights activists attempted to expose and contest the inequities of life in Chicago.In 1962, then-University of Chicago student Bernie Sanders organized a 15-day sit-in with other protesters to challenge the university's alleged off-campus segregated residential properties.In October 1963, tens of thousands of students and residents boycotted the CPS due to the segregationist policies of Superintendent Benjamin Willis, who was notorious for placing mobile units on playgrounds and parking lots to solve overcrowding in black schools.