Our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy have changed. We think you'll like them better this way.

Julian Bond: Up Close and Personal With Famed Civil Rights Leader

  • Broadcast in Politics Progressive
Walter Davis

Walter Davis

×  

Follow This Show

If you liked this show, you should follow Walter Davis.
h:142942
s:7539209
archived

Horace Julian Bond (born January 14, 1940), known as Julian Bond, is an American social activist and leader in the 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). 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 and the first president of theSouthern Poverty Law Center.

Facebook comments

Available when logged-in to Facebook and if Targeting Cookies are enabled