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
Civil rights leader Julian Bond, who served as chairman of the NAACP from 1998-2010, has died at the age of 75 after a brief, undisclosed illness.
Julian Bond, pictured here at the National Press Club August 31, 2006 in Washington DC., championed civil rights for over 50 years, including as chairman of the N.A.A.C.P. He died on Saturday in Fort Walton Beach, Fla.
The impressive thing about Julian Bond, who died Sunday at 75, is that he did both. And he did them expertly in the still-unfinished fight for civil rights. Bond was just 20 when he founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, an activist
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