Bond, horace julian

In the annals of the civil rights movement, the career of the politician, activist, and educator Julian Bond holds a unique place. Bond's work on behalf of social justice spans the period from the s to the early s. As a college organizer in , he helped found the student non-violent coordinating committee SNCC , arguably the most important group channel for the young people who expanded and radicalized the movement.

In , he became one of the first members of his generation to make the transition from activism to political office, subsequently serving for nearly two decades in Georgia state government. Through his legislation, writing, teaching, and planning for legal affairs groups, Bond is widely recognized as an intellectual leader of the contemporary civil rights movement.

The family's accomplishments—Bond was the descendant of a freed slave—did not insulate him from prejudice. While at the George School, a Quaker prep school at which he was the only black student in the s, Bond was told by the headmaster not to wear his school jacket on dates with white girls.

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The experience scarred him yet awakened him politically. At that time he also began developing a philosophy of racial awareness and pacifism, along with the witty, penetrating style for which he later became known. He did not receive his bachelor of arts degree in English until 14 years later, but in the interim, he made history. Bond was inspired by the civil rights movement and particularly the philosophy of nonviolent change espoused by martin luther king jr.