- Collection:
- Reflections on Georgia Politics oral history collection, 2006-2010
- Title:
- Julian Bond, 27 February 2012.
- Creator:
- Bond, Julian, 1940-2015
Short, Bob, 1932 - Contributor to Resource:
- Short, Bob, 1932-
- Publisher:
- Athens, Ga. : Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies
- Date of Original:
- 2012-02-27
- Subject:
- Georgia--General Assembly--House of Representatives
Georgia--General Assembly--Senate
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Morehouse College
University of Virginia
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
History teachers--Virginia--Charlottesville--Interviews
College teachers--Virginia--Charlottesville--Interviews
Legislators--Georgia--Interviews
African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Interviews
African American civil rights workers
College teachers
History teachers
Legislators
Universities and colleges--Faculty
Georgia
Virginia--Charlottesville - People:
- Bond, Julian, 1940-2015
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Virginia, 37.54812, -77.44675 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Bond discusses his early years, his education at Morehouse College, and his involvement in the civil rights movement, including his activities with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He talks about the racial and political climate in Atlanta in the 1960s, at a time when he was organizing sit-ins, protests, and voter registration drives. He also details his experience in the political arena as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives and, later, the Georgia senate.
Horace Julian Bond was born on January 14, 1940, in Nashville, Tennessee. As a student of all-black Morehouse College in Atlanta, Bond began his commitment to the civil rights movement when he helped to organize the Committee on the Appeal for Human Rights. In 1960 Bond helped to form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a student organization that provided grassroots support for civil rights in local communities. Bond served as communications director of SNCC, editing its protest magazine The Atlanta Inquirer. In 1965 he won a seat to the Georgia legislature, but was denied his seat because of his outspoken opposition to the Vietnam War. Bond would be elected by his district and denied a seat a total of three times before the U.S. Supreme Court declared the actions of the Georgia House unconstitutional. Bond took his seat in the House in 1967 and served there until 1974, when he was elected to the Georgia senate. Around this time, Bond served as president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights law firm. As senator, Bond became the first African-American chair of the Fulton County delegation and chaired the Committee on Consumer Affairs. In 1971 he led a voter registration drives in the predominately black communities of Georgia. Bond retired from the senate in 1986 to run for the U.S. Congress, but lost to longtime friend and fellow civil rights activist John Lewis. He became a history professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and a chair to the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Finding aid available in repository.
Interviewed by Bob Short. - Metadata URL:
- http://purl.libs.uga.edu/russell/RBRL220ROGP-133/ohms
- Language:
- eng
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- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Reflections on Georgia Politics Oral History Collection, ROGP 133 Julian Bond. Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, The University of Georgia Libraries.
- Extent:
- 1 interview : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- Reflections on Georgia Politics Oral History Collection
http://sclfind.libs.uga.edu/sclfind/view?docId=ead/RBRL220ROGP.xml - Contributing Institution:
- Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies
- Rights:
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