Celebrity News August 16, 2015
Civil Rights Icon Julian Bond Dies at 75
Julian Bond, a longtime civil rights activist known for his work with the NAACP, has died. He was 75 years old.
Considered an icon of the civil rights movement, he was a founder of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee while studying at Morehouse College in Atlanta. He became a passionate advocate for the civil rights laws that were passed in the 1960s, and was also noted for his position against U.S. involvement in Vietnam, as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives for many years, and as a co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
1989: Julian Bond delivered the dedication speech at the @CivilRightsCntr in Montgomery. Read: https://t.co/eZl1wjbrmf pic.twitter.com/ftZygctUZm
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He is survived by his wife, Pamela Horowitz, and his five children.
