Julian Bond

Julian Bond
Bond in 2000
Chair of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
In office 1998–2010
Preceded by	Myrlie Evers-Williams
Succeeded by	Roslyn Brock
Member of the Georgia State Senate from the 39th district
In office January 13, 1975 – January 12, 1987
Preceded by	Horace Ward
Succeeded by	Hildred Shumake
Member of the Georgia House of Representatives
In office January 9, 1967 – January 13, 1975
Succeeded by	Mildred Glover
Constituency	136th district (1967–1969) 111th district (1969–1973) 32nd district (1973–1975)
Personal details
Born	Horace Julian Bond (1940-01-14)January 14, 1940 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
Died	August 15, 2015(2015-08-15) (aged 75) Fort Walton Beach, Florida, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Other political affiliations	Democratic Socialists of America
Spouse(s)	Alice Clopton ​ ​ (m. 1961; div. 1989)​ Pamela Horowitz ​ (m. 1990)​
Children	5
Education	Morehouse College (BA)

Horace Julian Bond (January 14, 1940 – August 15, 2015) was an American social activist, leader of the civil rights movement, politician, professor, and writer. While he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he helped establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1971, he co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, and served as its first president for nearly a decade.

Bond was elected to serve four terms in the Georgia House of Representatives and later he was elected to serve six terms in the Georgia State Senate, serving a total of twenty years in both legislative chambers. Following his career in the legislature, he was a professor of history at the University of Virginia from 1990 to 2012. From 1998 to 2010, he was chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).