Bond, Julian, 1940-2015
Description
Horace Julian Bond was an American social activist and leader of the civil rights movement, politician, professor and writer. Bond was born on January 14, 1940 in Nashville, Tennessee. While he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he helped establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Bond was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1965. From 1965 to 1975, he served in the Georgia House and served six terms in the Georgia Senate from 1975-86. In 1968, Bond led a challenge delegation from Georgia to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and was the first African American nominated as Vice President of the United States.
Bond passed away on August 15, 2015, in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
Source:
"NAACP History: Julian Bond," https://www.naacp.org/julian-bond/
