{"id":42257,"date":"2015-08-17T01:58:47","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T01:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42257"},"modified":"2015-08-17T01:59:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T01:59:31","slug":"julian-bond-former-n-a-a-c-p-chairman-and-civil-rights-leader-dies-at-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42257","title":{"rendered":"Julian Bond, Former N.A.A.C.P. Chairman and Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 75"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julian Bond, Former N.A.A.C.P. Chairman and Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 75<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2015-08-16<\/p>\n

Roy Reed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Julian Bond<\/a>, a charismatic figure of the 1960s civil rights movement<\/a>, a lightning rod of the anti-Vietnam War campaign<\/a> and a lifelong champion of equal rights for minorities, notably as chairman of the N.A.A.C.P.<\/a>, died on Saturday night in Fort Walton Beach, Fla<\/a>. He was 75.<\/p>\n

He died after a brief illness, the Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a> said in a statement<\/a> Sunday morning.<\/p>\n

Mr. Bond was one of the original leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee<\/a> while he was a student at Morehouse College<\/a> in Atlanta<\/a>. He was the committee\u2019s communications director for five years and deftly guided the national news media toward stories of violence and discrimination as the committee challenged legal segregation<\/a> in the South\u2019s<\/a> public facilities.<\/p>\n

He gradually moved from the militancy of the student group to the top leadership of the establishmentarian<\/a> N.A.A.C.P. Along the way, Mr. Bond was a writer, poet, television commentator, lecturer and college teacher, and a persistent opponent of the stubborn remnants of white supremacy…<\/p>\n

…Horace Julian Bond was born Jan. 14, 1940, in Nashville<\/a>, to Horace Mann Bond<\/a> and the former Julia Washington. The family moved to Pennsylvania<\/a> five years later, when Mr. Bond\u2019s father became the first African-American president of his alma mater, Lincoln University<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Julian Bond\u2019s great-grandmother Jane Bond<\/a> was the slave mistress of a Kentucky<\/a> farmer. Julian\u2019s grandfather James Bond, one of Jane Bond\u2019s sons, was educated at Berea<\/a> and Oberlin Colleges<\/a> and became a clergyman. His son Horace Mann Bond expected his own son Julian to follow in his footsteps as an educator, but the young man was attracted instead to journalism and political activism…<\/p>\n

Read the entire obituary here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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