Bond died in Fort Walton Beach, Florida after a brief illness. (AP) — Julian Bond, a civil rights activist and longtime board chairman of the NAACP, died Saturday night, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. He was
The opening lyric from that old civil-rights song—“Woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom”—may not have been written with Julian Bond in mind, but he personified it. As a member of the Georgia House of Representatives and the Georgia
For some, they hear the sophisticated trumpet for justice as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the rabble-rousing, hell-raising civil rights organization that pushed Martin Luther King Jr. into militancy and, eventually, after
Iconic civil rights activist Julian Bond died on Saturday, leaving behind a lasting legacy in the fight for racial equality and human rights. He was 75. From his role as co-founder of the influential Student Nonviolent Coordinating
When the civil rights movement was gaining momentum in the early 1960s, Julian Bond emerged as one of its most visible champions. As the handsome, charismatic spokesperson of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Bond deftly drew