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SPLC President Richard Cohen Remembers Julian Bond (1940-2015)
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2:06Now PlayingRichard Cohen, president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, remembers the life of civil rights pioneer Julian Bond, who died on Saturday at the age of 75. Bond first gained prominence in 1960 when he organized a series of student sitins while attending Morehouse College. He went on to help found SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. After the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Bond was elected as a Democrat to the Georgia House of Representatives. But members of the Legislature refused to seat him, citing his vocal opposition to the Vietnam War. Bond took the case to the Supreme Court and won. He went on to serve 20 years in the Georgia House and Senate. At the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Julian Bond became the first AfricanAmerican person nominated for U.S. vice president by a major political party. But he had to withdraw his name because he was just 28 years old seven years too young to hold the secondhighest elected office. Julian would go on to cofound the Southern Poverty Law Center. He served as the organization’s first president from 1971 to 1979. From 1998 to 2010, he was chairman of the NAACP.
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