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Julian Bond
Bond was born in 1940 at Hubbard Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee.
The family resided on campus at Fort Valley State College, where his father was president. The house of the Bonds was a frequent stop for scholars, activists, and celebrities passing through, such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson.
In 1945, Bond's father accepted the position of president of Lincoln University, where he was its first African-American president, and the family moved North.
In 1957, Bond graduated from George School, a private Quaker preparatory boarding school near Newtown in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He started attending Morehouse College, a historically black college in Atlanta, Georgia.
On April 17, 1960, Bond helped co-found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Bond left Morehouse College in 1961 to work on civil rights in the South. From 1960 to 1963, Bond led student protests against segregation in public facilities and other Jim Crow laws of Georgia.From January 1961 to September 1966, he served as the communications director of SNCC. During this period, he traveled frequently in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas to help organize civil rights and voter registration drives.
At age 31, Bond returned to Morehouse College in 1971, to complete his Bachelor of Arts in English. Bond helped found the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a public-interest law firm based in Montgomery, Alabama. Bond served as its president from 1971 until 1979.
In addition to his organizing, Bond ran for political office in Georgia. In 1965, he was one of 11 African Americans elected to the Georgia House of Representatives.
From 1967 to 1975, Bond was elected to four terms in the Georgia House, where he organized the Georgia Legislative Black Caucus. Bond was elected in 1974 for the first of six terms in the Georgia Senate, where he served from 1975 to 1987.
Bond ran for the United States House of Representatives from Georgia's 5th congressional district (encompassing Atlanta) in 1986. He lost the Democratic nomination in a primary runoff to rival civil rights leader John Lewis in a bitter contest.During it Bond was accused of using cocaine and other drugs.During the campaign, Lewis challenged Bond to take a drug test (Lewis had said he took one and passed). Bond refused, saying the drug test was akin to McCarthyism and trivialized the issue of drugs.
Still dogged by allegations of drug use, Bond resigned from the Georgia Senate the following year.Bond's estranged wife, Alice, who had publicly accused him of using cocaine, later retracted her statements.
Bond died from complications of vascular disease on August 15, 2015, in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, at the age of 75. He is survived by his wife, his five children, and eight grandchildren.
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Thanks for sharing Mr. Bond's final resting place. I appreciate your series on black history month.
Yes this black history month has been great and thanks for sharing important history of America. We all should learn.
Great video Back Roads. I'm glad you did Black History. Thank You for sharing this. I Love your all your videos❤
Thank You so much for sharing history I enjoy every segment of your channel ❤️
I really enjoyed the video! I'm old so I remember these men.
Awesome video 📸👍🏽, THANK YOU so much for what you are doing. And thank you for recognizing black history month,. Thanks for sharing this with me ‼️😃
Thanks again for this viedo great man as well as his wife who was my professor in history..wonderful man
So wonderful of you recognizing black history month, again historic cementary.
I enjoy watching you thanks for being so educational I learn some things that I was not aware of keep up the good work Michelangelo
What a well kept grave yard.
Hey 👋 Backroads, interesting as always. The humidity 🥵 here this summer is killing me, while it looks like the cold 🥶 is getting to you. ❤️Jodie 🇦🇺
It had to have been very tough.💔
Quite interesting that these Civil Rights Leaders for pure humanity is buried in the same cemetery! I remember his demise recording as a member of SPLC myself he was dedicated in supporting Southern Poverty Law Center.
Thanks Backroads for bringing me along. Appreciate you telling the story thru wind, cold and other noises. U have brought contend that is interesting and information I would have never known. Thanks Sir!!!
I missed out on a chance to meet Mr. Bond because I had to work. He attended a ceremony in the development I lived in at the time, which was named after somebody who was an advocate for equal rights in NJ.
Think you iove black history month rest in peace
You're a Very good man for doing this
thanks for another great video 📹 👍 these videos have been very informative
Thanks for sharing, I appreciate what you've been doing ,with these informative vlogs.
Another great video 👍
Wow….didn’t know about the john Lewis story on the seat. Thank you for sharing.
Hi I hope you are having a beautiful day
RIP Julian Bond
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What part of Bama are you from...I grew up in Huntsville...my father worked at NASA from the early 60's til his retirement in the 90's...I now live in sunny and hot Mesa Arizona
Around Birmingham
Went to nursing school in Sylacauga