Horace Mann Bond

Horace Mann Bond (November 8, 1904 – December 21, 1972) was an American historian, college administrator, social science researcher, and the father of civil-rights leader Julian Bond.

Family

Horace was born 8 November 1904 in Nashville, Tennessee, the grandson of slaves. His mother, Jane Alice Browne, was a schoolteacher, and his father, James Bond, was a minister who served at Congregational churches across the South, often associated with historically black colleges. Horace was the sixth of seven children – one brother was prominent educator J. Max Bond, Sr.

Bond married Julia Agnes Washington in 1929. She was a student he met while teaching at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in the 1920s. Julia Washington was from a wealthy and prominent African-American family of mixed race in Nashville. She and Horace had three children: Jane Margaret, born 1939; Horace Julian, born in 1940; and James, born in 1944.

• Wikipedia, Huff, Christopher A. "Horace Mann Bond (1904-1972)." New Georgia Encyclopedia. 15 August 2013. Web. 16 August 2015.
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• Residence: 1910 - Depot, Whitley, Kentucky, USA
• Race: Black
• Ethnicity: American
  • Updated from 1910 United States Federal Census by SmartCopy: Aug 18 2015, 17:05:58 UTC