Julian Bond
American social activist
Died when: 75 years 213 days (907 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
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Horace Julian Bond (January 14, 1940 – 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).
