Julian Bond

Politician

1940 –

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Who is Julian Bond?

Horace Julian Bond, known as Julian Bond, is an American social activist and leader in the American 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. He was the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. 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.

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Born
Jan 14, 1940
Nashville
Also known as
  • Horace Julian Bond
Parents
Siblings
Spouses
Children
Ethnicity
  • African American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Morehouse College
  • George School
Employment
  • University of Virginia
Lived in
  • Nashville

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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