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tntribune.com
April 21, 2018
They announced an investigation was underway of the organization's tax-exempt status because then chairman Julian Bond had given a speech at the annual convention criticizing President George W. Bush and other political figures. Because the speech was more symbolic than specific, the IRS laterÃâà...
Canton Repository
April 15, 2018
McDew, who was born and raised in Massillon, counted U.S. Rep. John Lewis, the late Julian Bond and Andrew Young among his friends. He was arrested 43 times while picketing and protesting segregation in the Deep South. It would be naive to think they weren't afraid. People died for trying to vote andÃâà...
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
April 13, 2018
In the photo, the late Julian Bond, then a Georgia state senator who would go on to serve as chairman of the NAACP, holds Jackson's glove aloft in triumph. As the photo opportunity neared, Jackson's staff was tasked with finding him a pair of boxing trunks, but the sturdily built public servant wouldn't revealÃâà...
Weekly Challenger
April 12, 2018
While Julian Bond and others campaigned for the Kennedy slate, Donaldson was quoted in the October 13, 1979, edition of the St. Petersburg Times saying, “More than just four or five blacks should be calling the shots for St. Petersburg's blacks.” He said the time had come for shared leadership and calledÃâà...
The Tennessean
April 12, 2018
Angry black people spilled into the streets in many cities throughout the nation, including Nashville, in a violent reaction to the April 4 assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis. Advance units of the Tennessee National Guard entered Nashville in the early morning of April 5 to sealÃâà...
Las Vegas Review-Journal
April 5, 2018
“Our house was a revolving door for a whole lot of folks,” including civil rights leader Julian Bond, Bennett-Haron said. Her father's devotion to King and the civil rights movement showed through his dedication to bettering the lives of Las Vegas' black residents within and outside the confines of Zion,Ãâà...
News Radio 1310 KLIX
April 4, 2018
These events allowed him to meet such luminaries as Julian Bond and Walter Mondale. A committee my dad was working on hoped to ally with the civil rights movement and increase bargaining strength. Many years later he explained the leadership of the other movement wasn't interested in a joint front.
The Atlantic
April 1, 2018
Julian Bond, reflecting on the era in which he'd helped run press relations for the SCLC, was unflinching in his assessment of media's structural imperatives. “What the media craved was a steady diet of bold mass action campaigns in the streets, ideally faced by violent white resistance, which couldÃâà...
Yankton Daily Press
March 31, 2018
Again, relying on my 1970 Greyhound to fill in some memory blanks, Julian Bond spoke on November 2, 1969, and was co-sponsored by YC and MMC," she said. "The Rev. Channing Phillips and Dick Gregory appeared at YC in April 1970, 'under the auspices of the Program in World Understanding'sÃâà...
MyAJC
March 23, 2018
Post 1 At Large Councilman Michael Julian Bond said that he was “pretty confident” that the situation would be resolved “in a few days.” He also said this successful hack may encourage other attacks. “As daunting as the city of Atlanta's apparatus may seem, we're still limited by the amount of resources weÃâà...
CBS46 News Atlanta
March 23, 2018
The city is currently experiencing outages on various internal and external applications, including some that customers use to pay bills or access court-related information. “This is deathly serious,” said Atlanta city councilman Julian Bond. “If they had gotten greater access to our system, to the police, or theÃâà...
Duke Today
March 21, 2018
In 1961, Freedom Riders rolled through Mississippi to Jackson. All are jailed in Jackson, and then sent to the notorious Parchman Prison Farm. A few months later, local leaders ask SNCC to send organizers. Their task was to register voters. Left to right: Bob Moses, Julian Bond, Curtis Hayes, unidentified,Ãâà...
Hartford Courant
March 20, 2018
As the vice chairman of the national board of directors of the NAACP, Andrews held the second-highest position in the national organization at the time. “He was a mega-giant in the civil rights movement,'' state NAACP leader Scot X. Esdaile said. “He knew Ben Hooks, Julian Bond, Jesse Jackson — all theÃâà...
atlantadailyworld
March 15, 2018
Post 1 At-Large Council member Michael Julian Bond will join the Department of Public Works, the Keep Atlanta Beautiful Commission, and Liberty Tire Recycling in cleaning the environment during a free scrap-tire collection drive on Saturday, March 31 from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. at the Center for Hard toÃâà...
Atlanta Intown
March 13, 2018
On Tuesday, Atlanta City Councilmembers Michael Julian Bond and Marci Collier Overstreet encouraged students and residents to participate in the walkout. “We need to provide a safe environment for our children to learn, grow and flourish. I encourage all of Atlanta to show its support for this nationalÃâà...
Atlanta Intown
March 13, 2018
On Tuesday, Atlanta City Councilmembers Michael Julian Bond and Marci Collier Overstreet encouraged students and residents to participate in the walkout. “We need to provide a safe environment for our children to learn, grow and flourish. I encourage all of Atlanta to show its support for this nationalÃâà...
Arizona Daily Star
February 22, 2018
Civil rights leader Julian Bond spoke to a crowd of nearly 2,500 students and faculty at University of Arizona stadium on Nov. 21, 1968, at the invitation of Associated Students of the University of Arizona. Bond was a Georgia state legislator at the time. His name was floated as a vice-presidential candidateÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
January 9, 2018
January 9, 1967: Civil rights leader Julian Bond, who helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while a student at Morehouse College, was finally seated in the Georgia House. Following his election in 1965, the Georgia House refused to seat him after he had criticized U.S.Ãâà...
University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily
December 31, 1999
Particularly pertinent suggestions include Sally Hemings Park and Julian Bond Park, both of whom possess deep Charlottesville connections. An enslaved woman on Thomas Jefferson's estate, Hemings is believed to have born six children in a controversial, seemingly coercive relationship with theÃâà...
Official News
December 31, 1999
Courtesy: Dr. Craig Stutman. From left: Delaware Valley University Assistant Professor of History and Public Policy and Bench By The Road Project Co-Chair Dr. Craig Stutman, Bench By The Road Project Co-Chair Dr. Carolyn Denard, and Atlanta City-Councilman Michael Julian Bond, who has familyÃâà...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
December 31, 1999
Charles “Chuck” McDew spent the early 1960s as chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while the group was engaged in some of its most important civil rights work — advancing the sit-in movement and registering black citizens to vote in the South. He spent the rest of his lifeÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
December 31, 1999
John Lewis, longtime NAACP leader Julian Bond and Stokely Carmichael, who left SNCC to become a leader for the Black Panthers. At the conference, Guy Carawan sang a new version of “We Shall Overcome,” which became the national anthem of the civil rights movement. Workers joined hands andÃâà...
