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Bond, (Horace) Julian
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| Civil rights activist and state legislator, born in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. His mother was a librarian and his father a college professor who became president of Lincoln University. He led a life relatively sheltered from the worst of discrimination, but in the 1960s while a student at Morehouse College, following the lead of the original sit-in in Greensboro, NC, he sat in at an Atlanta cafeteria and was arrested. In 1960 he helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and while working with SNCC as its communications director he took a job with a new African-American owned newspaper, the Atlantic Inquirer (1960–1). He dropped out of college and did not receive his BA from Morehouse until 1971. Elected to the Georgia House of Representatives (1965), he was denied his seat because of his objections to the US involvement in the Vietnam War, but in 1966 the US Supreme Court ruled that he must be seated, and after his years there (1966–75) he served in the Georgia Senate (1975–87). He gave up this seat to seek the Democratic nomination for the US House of Representatives but lost to John Lewis. Shortly after, a scandal broke out, when his wife charged him with using cocaine and he was named in a paternity suit; he was divorced in 1989. After leaving public office he became a visiting professor at such universities as Drexel (1988–9), Harvard (1989), and American University (1991). Meanwhile he had remained active in various civil rights organizations and events; he helped found the Southern Poverty Law Center (1971), hosted a television programme, America's Black Forum, and later narrated the Public Broadcasting System special, Eyes on the Prize. |
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