Biography
Horace Julian Bond (January 14, 1940 β August 15, 2015) was an American social activist, leader of the civil rights movement, politician, professor, and writer. While he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he helped establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1971, he co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, and served as its first president for nearly a decade.
Bond was elected to serve four terms in the Georgia House of Representatives and later he was elected to serve six terms in the Georgia State Senate, serving a total of twenty years in both legislative chambers. Following his career in the legislature, he was a professor of history at the University of Virginia from 1990 to 2012. From 1998 to 2010, he was chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Filmography
all 23
Movies 21
self 18
Narrator 5
TV Shows 2
The Draft (2015)
Rosenwald (2015)
Mavis! (2015)
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (2015)
5 to 7 (2014)
Unearth (2014)
Freedom Summer (2014)
Illegal Love (2011)
The Art of the Steal (2010)
Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy (2009)
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power (2004)
The Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History (1998)
Muhammad Ali The Whole Story (1996)
Die Muhammad Ali Story (1996)
Violence: An American Tradition (1995)
The Shadow of Hate (1995)
Adam Clayton Powell (1989)
Dawn's Early Light: Ralph McGill and the Segregated South (1989)
Eyes on the Prize (1987)
In Remembrance of Martin (1986)
Still A Brother: Inside the Negro Middle Class (1968)
Julian Bond - Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement
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Deathday2015-08-15 (undefined years old)
Birth NameHorace Julian Bond
Birth PlaceNashville, Tennessee, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
AwardsNational LGBTQ Task Force, Eugene V. Debs Award, Alston-Jones International Civil and Human Rights Award, Library of Congress Living Legend, Spingarn Medal, National Civil Rights Museum
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