US Civil Rights Leader Julian Bond Dies at 75
“He was an integral part of helping young people”, said Elder Cal Murrell from the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Georgia.
Bond was a celebrity and a popular speaker on college campuses. “He was so smart, so gifted, so articulate and he had a way of getting to people, to students, to young people and he succeeded”.
Speaking to NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday, Rep. Lewis acknowledged that the contest created “a little schism for a while” between the two, but said they later renewed their friendship.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson says he’s “saddened and broken hearted” at the death of civil rights figure Julian Bond.
“I knew that he hadn’t been feeling too well the past few weeks and months, but it is shocking”, Lewis told USA TODAY. Millions of Americans saw a different side of Mr. Bond when he hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live in 1977. Julia Bond was a former librarian at Clark Atlanta University. “And what better way to be remembered than that”.
President Barack Obama called Bond a hero..
By any measure, Julian Bond did a lot more than most people do for what he believed in.
Bond was president of the SPLC from 1971 to 1979.
The case wound up in the U.S. Supreme Court, where Georgia argued that it had the power to judge conscientiousness in order to “ensure the loyalty of its public servants by making them taking of an oath a qualification of office”. Jackson said.
“With Julian’s passing, the country has lost one of its most passionate and eloquent voices for the cause of justice”.
“He was certainly very much concerned about civil rights and an advocate of African-Americans, but not just for African-Americans but all citizens of the nation and the world”, he said.
Atlanta City leaders are remembering a civil rights icon: Julian Bond. He understood that, as he put it, “America is race”, from the founders to the Civil War to the civil rights movement to Treyvon Martin, Michael Brown and Sandra Bland. We invite you to gather at a body of water near your home and precisely at 2:00pm, CDT, spread flower pedals on the water and join us in bidding farewell to Horace Julian Bond. But it still hurts when a giant like Julian Bond slips away. Celebrities and scholars such as W.E.B. He was arrested after organizing some of the first student demonstrations to desegregate Atlanta’s lunch counters, parks and theaters. He later served as communications director for the organization for five years. He later returned and got his degree in 1971. He won on free speech grounds and went on to serve four terms in the Georgia House and six in the Senate. Robert F. Kennedy had also fallen to an assassin’s bullets; the convention, dogged by nonstop protesting outside its doors and in the streets of Chicago, became an internationally broadcast tempest of anger, grief, disillusionment, and inter-generational contempt. With Bobby Kennedy gone, the delegates nominated Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey for the presidency (he would lose a close election to Richard M. Nixon in November). Bond served for ten years as the Chairman of the NAACP. Bond was also a founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which focuses on seeking justice for minority and marginalized groups in the United States.
And because his fiery rhetoric so often had him in trouble, he was a First Amendment absolutist’s dream.
While other civil rights leaders were known more for their oratory, Bond let his actions do the talking.
“Mr. Bond was a friend of our family”, said council member Kwanza Hall.
UVa is raising money to endow the Julian Bond Professorship of Civil Rights and Social Justice.
“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.