{"id":45120,"date":"2016-01-17T01:07:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-17T01:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45120"},"modified":"2016-01-17T01:07:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-17T01:07:24","slug":"remembering-julian-bond-1940-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45120","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Julian Bond (1940-2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remembering Julian Bond (1940-2015)<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Politico<\/a>
\n2015-12-29<\/p>\n

Josh Zeitz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nGetty<\/small><\/p>\n

For many Americans, Julian Bond<\/a>, who died in August at age 75, was quite literally the voice of the modern civil rights movement<\/a>. In the early 1960s, when he served as communications director for the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee<\/a> (SNCC), and in later years, as a prominent author, university lecturer and narrator of the acclaimed PBS<\/a> documentary Eyes on the Prize<\/em><\/a>, he embodied the dignity and righteousness of the black freedom struggle. \u201cJustice and equality was the mission that spanned his life,\u201d President Obama<\/a> said in the wake of his passing. \u201cJulian Bond helped change this country for the better. And what better way to be remembered than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The son of Horace Mann Bond<\/a>, an acclaimed black educator who earned his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, Julian grew up in middle-class comfort and respectability in southeast Pennsylvania<\/a>, where his father served for more than a decade as president of Lincoln University, a historically black college. A virtual who\u2019s-who of American intelligentsia passed through the door of his childhood home. As a young boy, he sat in Paul Robeson\u2019s<\/a> lap as the famed activist and baritone sang a Russian folk song for the family. He met W.E.B. DuBois<\/a> and Albert Einstein<\/a>. As an adult, he still recalled the excitement of a visit from Walter White<\/a>, the executive secretary of the NAACP<\/a>. \u201cWhen he pulled up to our house, he was in a big, black shiny car escorted by two Pennsylvania state troopers on motorcycles with big leather boots,\u201d Bond later told an interviewer, \u201cI thought, boy, this is an important guy. This guy\u2019s really something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bond, who attended high school at an integrated Quaker institution in Bucks County, Pennsylvania<\/a>, knew little of segregation growing up. He was only four or five years old the first time he learned there was \u201csome category of people I belonged to,\u201d as he recalled in an oral history many decades after the fact. Walking with his parents through the train station in Nashville<\/a>, where they had arrived for a visit with extended family, \u201ca policeman came up to my mother and said, \u2018Niggers aren\u2019t allowed here.\u2019 She said, \u2018Are you calling me a nigger?\u2019 I don\u2019t know if it was because she was very fair skinned and might have been white, although she didn\u2019t appear white to me, or if it was her manner with the policeman. He was just taken aback. He didn\u2019t say anything else, and we just kept on going.\u201d…<\/p>\n

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Remembering Julian Bond (1940-2015) Politico 2015-12-29 Josh Zeitz Getty For many Americans, Julian Bond, who died in August at age 75, was quite literally the voice of the modern civil rights movement. In the early 1960s, when he served as communications director for the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and in later years, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,459,8,26,20],"tags":[20706,22634,7257,14578],"class_list":["post-45120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-horace-julian-bond","tag-josh-zeitz","tag-julian-bond","tag-politico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45121,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45120\/revisions\/45121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}