Bond’s activism: His quest for equal rights took many forms

“He started when he was about 17 and he went to 75”, Young said.

In the years following Eyes I would cross paths with Julian at discussions about the meaning of the civil rights movement. His wife, Pamela Sue Horowitz, said the cause was complications of vascular disease. That same evening, Bond visited Link’s Wonderland to mingle with people in the community and took time to share a moment with owner and local black entrepreneur legend Lincoln “Link” Chapman (far left). Lewis and also Bond assisted set up the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and then later on ran against one another in a competitive 1986 pursuit for Congress while Bond was a Georgia state senator. He later returned to Morehouse to earn a degree in English. The U.S. Supreme Court, in what was a no-brainer decision even in the turbulence of the mid-Sixties, ruled unanimously in 1966 that the legislature had denied Bond a seat simply for exercising his First Amendment rights. Bond took his seat in 1967. He was already well known because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s stand against the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War.

Julian Bond was called home too early.

“Justice and equality was the mission that spanned his life”, Obama said. He served in the house until 1975, and in the state Senate until 1986. He was the president of the organization between 1971 and 1979 and was a member of its board of directors at the time of his death. Photogenic, he was a frequent figure and guest on 1960s television, where he used his position to challenge Americans with notions of racial equality and social justice for all.

Bond was often at the forefront of protests against segregation.

Bond was “a thinker as well as a doer”.

Julian Bond a prolific, brilliant man. A man who lived ahead of his time.

What struck me about Bond was that he shrewdly noticed things about people-even the ways they dress, talk, and interact.

“No matter who you are, where you’re at, what side you’re on, you can never forget the unbelievable work that Julian Bond has done for us”, said Toriano Parker, President of the Pinellas County chapter of the SCLC.

“Everybody is not going to be out there in the street with their hands up or shouting, ” she said. Unfortunately, the different approaches can divide people who can and should be allies, with grassroots activists getting disillusioned with elected officials (President Barack Obama is a good example) who are not able to make changes as quickly as they all would like.

Morris Dees, co-founder of the law center, said the nation had lost one of its most passionate voices for justice. A man who fought for our children, our race, and poverty.

He was made chairman of the NAACP in 1998.

ELLIOTT: Bond in 2013 told me those first sit-in leaders may have had their sights on hamburgers and Coca-Colas, but the ultimate prize was something much bigger. We know homosexuality is not a mental illness. “I know he will always be a large part of the Albany Civil Rights Institute”, ACRI Executive Director Frank Wilson said. I could not and will not change it if I could. She retracted her accusations after Mayor Andrew Young of Atlanta, telephoned her, leading to speculation that improper political pressure had been used.

Horace Julian Bond was born in Nashville on Jan. 14, 1940. Additional peoplesworld.org reporting was also added.