Bond helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, on Shaw University’s campus in Raleigh. “We hope that Mr. Bond rests in peace, and our thoughts are with his family and friends”.
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Bond, who died a week earlier at 75, spent part of this childhood at Fort Valley State University, where his father was the first president.
Despite discussing plans with Branch about a grave-site marker, Bond’s body was cremated this week in Florida.
The roots of friendship go even deeper for D.C. resident Sammie Whiting-Ellis, who knew Julian Bond when they were children. Milton worked for Bond’s father at the time.
Across the country, in cities including Washington, Dallas and Montgomery, others did the same. After that, the group gathered around the water fountain, with each attendee tossing in flower petals in Bond’s honor. “Black lives matter. White lives matter. He was a human being who understood that all of us had to live together as brothers and sisters, or perish together as fools”.
The Moorhouse College graduate was best known for his work as a Georgia lawmaker, N.A.A.C.P. leader and the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Julian Bond, an iconic civil rights leader and lawmaker, passed away last week at his home in Walton County.
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Julian talked that day of the courage of the martyrs remembered on the Memorial, of the movement’s tragedies and triumphs, of the challenges that lie ahead.
