Flags to Half-Staff for Late Civil Rights Leader Julian Bond

Horace Julian Bond, born on January 14 1940 in Nashville, Tennessee, spent all of his adult life fighting injustice, through advocacy, the legislature and activism. From 1998 to 2010, he was chairman of the NAACP and the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. “Now may you rest in peace!”

On August 15, America said goodbye to an American icon and civil rights hero, Julian Bond. He went on to help found SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

An online article describes Bond as a committed activist during the civil rights movement and an esteemed professor at UVA for over 20 years.

The ceremony is being held at the request of the family of Bond, the NAACP and the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights.

“#JulianBond, a friend & fellow traveler who with courage, set the moral & academic tone of our generation”. Ambassador Andrew Young will be there and will deposit a floral arrangement in the reflecting pool at 3:00pm on behalf of all who meet there to honor Julian.

The SPLC said that Bond died in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., and is survived by his wife, Pamela Horowitz and his five children.