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About Julian Bond
Horace Julian Bond (January 14, 1940 – August 15, 2015), known as Julian Bond, was an American social activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement, politician, professor, and writer. While a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he helped to establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
Bond was elected to four terms in the Georgia House of Representatives and later to six terms in the Georgia Senate, having served a combined twenty years in both legislative chambers. From 1998 to 2010, he was chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Family
Bond was born at Hubbard Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, to parents Julia Agnes (Washington) and Horace Mann Bond. His father was an educator, former president of Lincoln University. His mother, Julia, was a former librarian at Clark Atlanta University.
Bond was married twice, to Alice Clopton (m. 1961; div. 1989), with whom he had five children; and to Pamela S. Horowitz (m. 1990; wid. 2015), no children.
Awards and honors
- 2002, he was a recipient of the National Freedom Award, from the National Civil Rights Museum.
- 2009, he was awarded the Spingarn Medal, from the NAACP.
Among 25 honorary degrees, he was awarded:
- 1999, an honorary LL.D. from Bates College.
- 2008, an honorary degree from George Washington University. Bond was also the 2008 Commencement Keynote Speaker.
- 2009, an honorary L.H.D. from Macalester College.
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Julian Bond's Timeline
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January 14, 1940
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Hubbard Hospital, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, United States
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