Perhaps U.S. Rep. John Lewis and the Congressional Black Caucus were a little too quick to sell their souls to Hillary Clinton over rival Bernie Sanders with their endorsement last week in the Democratic presidential primary.

Or the fix was in from the jump.

Part of Lewis’ reasoning for choosing Hillary was to question Sanders’ participation in the civil rights movement.

“I never saw him. I never met him,” Lewis said of Sanders during the height of the struggle in the mid 1960s.

WATCH: Rep. John Lewis on @BernieSanders' civil rights record: "I never saw him. I never met him."https://t.co/KApfLPumiJ

— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) February 11, 2016

But a photo unearthed by the Chicago Tribune showed that not only was Sanders around, he was busy putting action to words… and getting arrested for doing so.

The Tribune posted this photograph of Sanders being arrested in 1963 at a South Side protest:

Arrest photo of young activist Bernie Sanders emerges from Chicago Tribune archives https://t.co/HFyQtWTnkp #Chicago pic.twitter.com/s0P0nXT4Qk

— Chicago Trib Photo (@ChiTribPhoto) February 20, 2016

Turns out, Sanders was a leader of the Congress of Racial Equality, a major civil rights group at the University of Chicago.

The Tribune reported that Sanders was arrested Aug. 12, 1963, and charged with resisting arrest while participating in a protest over segregation in the classroom. He was fined $25 after being found guilty.

Social media users were skeptical of the reaction to the photo, expecting Clinton supporters to look for reasons to discount it. Here’s a sampling of responses from Twitter:

Lewis & Clyburn will discount Bernie’s commitment to Civil Rights. They sold their souls to Clinton. https://t.co/rrEDUZBOIY

— deLIBERnATION (@deLIBERnATION) February 20, 2016

I bet hillary did this too. Right ? https://t.co/4VLecRqcye

— Ramachandran S (@rrnsss) February 20, 2016

@ChiTribPhoto Please send this photo to John Lewis. You will prolly find him hanging out at the #WallStreet Club with Hillary .

— Arun Shanbhag (@ArunShanbhag) February 20, 2016

@ChiTribPhoto @joshtpm I believe you could call this being “on the front lines”

— cheryl avery (@cavery0614) February 20, 2016

@ChiTribPhoto @TheStalwart even those that disagree with @BernieSanders don’t doubt his liberal, activist bona fides; Only @HillaryClinton

— Michael C. Khouw (@Michael_Khouw) February 20, 2016

@ChiTribPhoto @allahpundit This was about the time that Hillary Clinton was volunteering for the Goldwater campaign.

— Mark (@analogkid2112) February 20, 2016

@ChiTribPhoto I’m waiting for the media and political establishment to debunk and discredit the photo. @CapehartJ @repjohnlewis

— Rob Landeros (@roblanderos) February 20, 2016

@ChiTribPhoto @AstaziaSJ Walk it like you talk it, Bernie!

— susan sisko carter (@SiskoCarter) February 20, 2016

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