Julian Bond, then a Georgia state representative, on streets of the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn on September 15,1968. One of Julian Bond’s heroes, Frederick Douglass, died at 77 in his ...
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When Julian Bond showed up at the state Capitol in January 1966, he faced a roadblock. Although the 25-year-old had been elected to the Legislature, lawmakers refused to swear him in. They took issue ...
Julian Bond helped change this country for the better. In 1968, Bond led a delegation to the Democratic National Convention, where his name was placed in nomination for the vice presidency, but he ...