Bond, 75, died over the weekend in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. He realized that civil rights could not be achieved without economic rights, and that economic rights would not advance if America kept throwing resources and lives into war overseas. He was the latest in a list of homicide victims that, as of August. 16, number 93-20 more than last year at this time.
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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. At the remarkable age of 25, he was elected to the Georgia State House.
As a college student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, “Bond was one of the original leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee”, according to CNBC. His job…
Bond said that Ms. Baker did not especially trust the more senior leaders of the Movement-including even King (although King was only in his thirties in the 1960s!).
“One thing I always said to Julian was if they had just seated you, you never would have become as famous as you are”. And it’s – I don’t know – it’s hard.
Bond moved to the center of the civil rights action in Atlanta, the unofficial capital of the equal rights movement, during the 1960s. Celebrities and scholars such as W.E.B. “I know he will always be a large part of the Albany Civil Rights Institute”, ACRI Executive Director Frank Wilson said. I won. They threw me out again.
“I strongly suspect my race was also a reason”.
Bond was president of the SPLC from 1971 to 1979.
With the convention floor in bedlam and demonstrations raging outside the hall, Bond was nominated as vice president, a symbolic nomination (he was only 27 and the constitutionally required age is 35) “about the wave of the future”.
Morris Dees, co-founder of the law center, said the nation had lost one of its most passionate voices for justice. He recruited Bond to be the organization’s first president.
Julian Bond helped change this country for the better.
Almost a decade later, Bond and Callaway sat down for an interview. He had a reputation as a calm leader, not afraid to engage his opponents or offend his constituents. On this, Bond says that while he hasn’t had a bad experience in Chicago, he just doesn’t want to.
Julian Bond was devastated and incensed when the news came from the balcony of the Lorraine Motel on April 4, 1968-Dr. As chairman emeritus of the NAACP…
BOND: Gay and lesbian couples have the same values as everyone else – love, commitment and stable families. Many students thought we were trying to make them white.
He served on the Georgia state legislature and taught at the University of Virginia and American University.
Times like these of polarizing politics, street violence and increasingly destructive natural disasters, you look for diversions in the arts, in sports, or more simply, the small joys offered by life lived daily.
Bond was “a thinker as well as a doer”. But, of course, that meant really integrating all of society in the end.
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President Barack Obama called him a “hero” and a “friend”.
