The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Julian Bond

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with The Honorable Julian Bond

4/21/2000

Civil rights activist, state representative, and state senator Julian Bond (1940 - 2015 ) was the former chairman of the NAACP, the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center and served as a Georgia State Senator. Bond made history when his seat in the Georgia House of Representitives was denied, he went on to win a U.S. Superme Court case and served four terms as a Democratic member in the Georgia House. Horowitz was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 4/21/2000, in Washington, D.C.. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 6; Total Run Time: 02h 35m 55s

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Bond, Horace Julian, 1940-2015

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Civil rights activist, state representative, and state senator Julian Bond was born on January 14, 1940 in Nashville, Tennessee. He and his family moved to Pennsylvania, where his father, Horace Mann Bond, was appointed president of Lincoln University.In 1957, Julian Bond graduated from the George School, a Quaker school in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and entered Morehouse College. In 1960, Julian Bond was one of several hundred students who helped form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commit...