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Horace Julian Bond (January 14, 1940 – August 15, 2015) was an American social activist, leader of the civil rights movement, politician, professor, and writer. While he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he helped establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Julian Bond (born January 14, 1940, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.—died August 15, 2015, Fort Walton Beach, Florida) was a U.S. legislator and Black civil rights leader, best known for his fight to take his duly elected seat in the Georgia House of Representatives.
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Aug 16, 2015 · Julian Bond, a charismatic figure of the 1960s civil rights movement, a lightning rod of the anti-Vietnam War campaign and a lifelong champion of equal rights, notably as chairman of...
Julian Bond was a prominent civil rights activist who became the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center and the chairman of NAACP. He also served in Georgia's legislature, ran for vice president, and taught at several universities.
- Slating of Julian Bond interview. Julian Bond's favorites, part 1. Julian Bond tells about conducting interviews for a different oral history project.
- Julian Bond's high school girlfriends--one white and one black. Julian Bond discusses his youthful ambition to be a writer. Julian Bond praises his father's scholarship as a great personal influence.
- Julian Bond describes the founding of SNCC. Julian Bond discusses his election to the Georgia legislature and the fight to be seated. Julian Bond describes his successful 1965 campaign for state legislature.
- Julian Bond describes learning how to succeed as a legislator. Julian Bond's legislative successes including the creation of a black Congressional district in Atlanta.
Aug 16, 2015 · Julian Bond was a prominent activist in the 1960s civil rights movement and a longtime board chairman of the NAACP. He also served in the Georgia state legislature and taught at American University and the University of Virginia.
Aug 16, 2015 · ATLANTA (AP) — Julian Bond's life traced the arc of the civil rights movement, from his efforts as a militant young man to start a student protest group all the way to the top leadership post at the NAACP.
