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Preceded by Myrlie Evers-Williams Horace Ward |
Horace Julian Bond Chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1998-2010 Member of the Georgia State Senate from the 39th district 1975-1987 Member of the Georgia House of Representatives 1967-1975 |
Succeeded by Roslyn Brock Hildred Shumake Mildred Glover |
Horace Julian Bond was an American social activist, leader of the civil rights movement, politician, professor, and author. He helped establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama.
He served four terms in the Georgia House of Representatives and later he was elected to serve six terms in the Georgia State Senate. From 1998 to 2010, he was chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).[1]
Horace Bond, son of noted educator Horace Bond and librarian Julia Washington, was born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1940.
He was married twice, first to Alice Clopton in 1961, with whom he had five children, then to Pamela Sue Horowitz in 1990.[2]
He died in 2015 and is buried in South View Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia.[3]
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