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Bond, Julian, 1940-2015

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Personal name headingBond, Julian, 1940-2015
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Variant(s)Bond, Horace Julian, 1940-2015
Associated placeAtlanta (Ga.)
Birth date1940-01-14
Death date2015-08-15
Place of birthNashville (Tenn.)
Place of deathFort Walton Beach (Fla.)
Field of activityAfrican Americans--Civil rights Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements
AffiliationMorehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) Southern Poverty Law Center Georgia. General Assembly. House of Representatives Georgia. General Assembly. Senate
Profession or occupationCivil rights workers Legislators College teachers
Found inRose, T. Black leaders, then and now, c1984: t.p. (Julian Bond, senator, Atlanta, Ga.)
LC data base, 9/15/84 (hdg.: Bond, Julian, 1940- )
Hate groups USA [VR] 2000, c1999: on-screen caption (Julian Bond, Chairman, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; speaker)
NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center for His Interview, 1968 Jan. 22 (Bond, Julian, 1940-; State Representative, Georgia House of Representatives. Former communications director, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC))
English Wikipedia website, viewed Mar. 25, 2013 (Horace Julian Bond (born Jan. 14, 1940), known as Julian Bond, is an American social activist and leader in the American civil rights movement, politician, professor, and writer. While a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he helped to establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He was the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Bond was elected to four terms in the Georgia House of Representatives and later to six terms in the Georgia Senate, having served a combined twenty years in both legislative chambers. From 1998 to 2010, he was chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 17, 2015 (in obituary published Aug. 16: Julian Bond; b. Horace Julian Bond, Jan. 14, 1940, Nashville; d. Saturday night [Aug. 15, 2015], Fort Walton Beach, Fla., aged 75; charismatic figure of the 1960s civil rights movement, lightning rod of the anti-Vietnam War campaign, and lifelong champion of equal rights, notably as chairman of the N.A.A.C.P.; taught at various universities)
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed June 08, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bond, Julian; educational institution official, educator; born 14 January 1940 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States; BA in English at Morehouse College (1971); cofounded the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights (COHAR); director of communications of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) (1960-1965); was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives, initially barred, but later assumed the position (1965-1974); elected to the Georgia State Senate (1974); became chairman of the board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) (1998); wrote A Time to Speak, a Time to Act: The Movement in Politics (1972); narrated Eyes on the Prize, PBS documentary, as well as Academy Award-winning documentary, A Time for Justice (1987-1990, 1994); hosted America's Black Forum (1980-1997); taught at Harvard, Drexel, American, and Virginia, among others; honors include twenty five honorary degrees)
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