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March 13, 2000
Media Alert: Julian Bond To Speak
WHO: Civil rights activist Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP
WHAT: Lecture on "2000: A Race Odyssey," which is free and open to the public
WHEN: March 22, 2000 at 8 p.m.
WHERE: McCosh 50, west of Washington Road on the Princeton University campus
WHY: To mark the 30th anniversary of Princeton University’s Program in African-American StudiesJulian Bond’s leadership in the civil-rights movement dates to his student days at Morehouse College, when he co-founded a student organization which directed three years of non-violent protests to integrate Atlanta’s movie theaters, lunch counters and parks. He also helped form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960 and became its communications director.
In 1965, Bond was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives. House members refused to seat him because of his outspoken opposition to the war in Vietnam, and Bond joined the House only after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor. Eventually he served four terms in the House and six terms in the state Senate.
A Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the American University and a history professor at the University of Virginia, Bond is the author of A Time to Speak, A Time to Act and Black Candidates&endash;Southern Campaign Experiences. His poems and articles have appeared in The Nation, Negro Digest, Motive, Rights & Reviews, Life, Playboy, The New York Times, Ramparts, Beyond the Blues, New Negro Poets, the Los Angeles Times, and the Atlanta Constitution.
Bond became chairman of the NAACP in February 1998.