Julian Bond

Horace Julian Bond (b. 14 January 1940) is an American leader of the civil rights movement. While a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia during the early 1960's, he helped found SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Since 1998 and as of 2004, he is Chairman of the NAACP. He served in the Georgia legislature as both a Representative and as a Senator. He has been a lecturer at the University of Virginia since 1990 and a professor there since 1998. In addition, he has been a professor at American University, near his Washington, DC home, since 1991. Bond has been known to berate conservative African-Americans like former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Alan Keyes and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. He also has been known as a divisive figure because of his support for abortion rights and gay-marriage.

External links

• Biography at NAACP.org
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• Brief video clip From the State Library & Archives of Florida.