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Julian Bond

BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board Member Julian Bond was Communications Director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from l960 until l965; today he is Distinguished Scholar in Residence in the School of Government at American University in Washington, DC and a Professor in the History Department at the University of Virginia. In February 2010, he stepped down after 12 terms as Chairman of the NAACP.) Click here to contact Mr. Bond.

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Commentary

SNCC: What We Did

By Julian Bond Editorial Board

(Chorus)” [1] As former President Jimmy Carter told Mary King, “If you wanted to scare white people in Southwest Georgia, Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference [SCLC] wouldn’t do it. You only had to say one word – SNCC!” [2] John F. Kennedy said that compared to Martin Luther King’s SCLC, SNCC…

(Chorus)” [1] As former President Jimmy Carter told Mary King, “If you wanted to scare white people in Southwest Georgia, Martin Luther King and the Southern…

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Commentary

98th Annual NAACP Convention: The NAACP’s Battles Are Much the Same as 100 Years Ago

By Julian Bond Editorial Board

The current issue is always free to everyone Note: This is the complete text of a speech by BlackCommentator Editorial Board member Julian Bond, Chairman of the NAACP Board of Directors that was given at the NAACP’s 98th annual convention held this year at Cobo Hall in Detroit. To SCF Chairman Roy Levy Williams, Vice…

The current issue is always free to everyone Note: This is the complete text of a speech by BlackCommentator Editorial Board member Julian Bond, Chairman of…

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Commentary

The Broken Promise of Brown

By Julian Bond Editorial Board

Prof. Bond delivered the following speech on May 15 in Topeka, Kansas, at the NAACP’s Brown commemoration. Fifty years ago this past April, Martin Luther King, Jr. preached his first sermon as the new pastor of Montgomery’s Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. He was twenty-five years old. One month later, on May 17th, 1954, the United…

Prof. Bond delivered the following speech on May 15 in Topeka, Kansas, at the NAACP’s Brown commemoration. Fifty years ago this past April, Martin Luther King,…

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