The Commercial Appeal quoted local and national civil rights leaders. It also covered goings-on in Danville’s Black neighborhoods.

Julian Bond was an American civil rights leader whose life and legacy are both inspiring and important to learn about. He was a co-founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee ...

(Getty / Bettmann) In May of 1969, Ebony magazine ran a profile of Julian Bond, the activist and civil rights leader who had recently been reelected to the Georgia House of Representatives.

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They laughed with, cried and hugged the family of Julian Bond, in celebration of an iconic civil rights figure who never lost his wit, boyish good looks or passion in seeking justice for all ...

That is when Julian Bond the agitator became Julian Bond the ... left his fingerprints on pretty much every major civil rights organization and issue of the last five decades.

They didn’t drop out and run away.” – Julian Bond The nation lost another civil rights hero last week with the passing of Julian Bond. And we have lost him at an important time in history.

Unlike most of the people who are sadly reminiscing about Julian Bond, I fondly recall how my last conversation with the iconic civil rights veteran occurred at a zombie movie. A mutual friend had ...

Civil Rights leader Julian Bond died at age 75. The Democrat asked several Tallahassee area residents for recollections of Bond and his work. ‘Giant of a man’ “Today is truly one of the ...

The family of Julian Bond will hold a private service for the civil rights leader on Saturday. Bond, who fought discrimination in his various roles as president of the Southern Poverty Law ...