Papers from the Julian Bond Library, Nathaniel Rochester Community School [manuscript], 1970-2001.

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Papers from the Julian Bond Library, Nathaniel Rochester Community School [manuscript], 1970-2001.

The papers, collected by school librarian Marjorie Towne, other staff, and students, include correspondence, news clippings including Bond's syndicated column, photographs, publicity material and audio and video recordings. Videotapes include a Nickelodeon news program, 1998, on major events in the Civil Rights movement with voiceover by Bond's granddaughter Lauren Bond; an HBO show "Violence: an American tradition" discussing the history of white supremacy, narrated by Bond; and a PBS show "Maya Linn: a strong clear vision" containing a short clip of Bond giving a speech at the opening of the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Ala. The collection also contains an 8 mm. motion picture film (color, no sound) of Bond's visit to the Nathaniel Rochester School. The collection also contains 3 reels of unidentified videotapes, one of which appears to be from the Nathaniel Rochester School Library dedication. The papers also contain 3 audiocassettes of the Julian Bond Library Dedication, 1997; a cassette of sound clips from a lecture "History of the Civil Rights Movement" together with an interview on a Philadelphia radio station, 1989 discussing misconceptions about the Civil Rights Movement; and a casette of a visit to an 8th grade class, 1987 February, answering questions about Bond's past and present civil rights activities.

circa 400 items.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7084226

University of Virginia. Library

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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...

Towne, Marjorie.

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Nathaniel Rochester Community School.

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Lin, Maya Ying

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Maya Ying Lin is an architect from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Maya Ying Lin, 1983 Mar. 6 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83833475 b. 1959 From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145342710 ...

Bond, Lauren.

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Nathaniel Rochester Community School. Julian Bond Library.

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