Author: Julian Bond

A long-time leader in the civil rights movement, Julian Bond was a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. From 1998 to 2010, he served as chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Earlier he was elected — first to the House and then to the Senate — in the Georgia General Assembly, where he served for two decades.