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FORT WALTON BEACH, Florida — Longtime former NAACP chairman and charismatic Civil Rights icon Julian Bond died Saturday night in Fort Walton, Florida after a brief illness. He was 75.
President Barack Obama, America's first Black president, lauded Bond, a community activists and prominent figure of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s as a friend to the first family, and a "hero."
"Justice and equality was the mission that spanned his life," said Obama in a press release. "Julian Bond helped change this country for the better, and what better way to be remembered than that."
Funeral arrangements are pending.
A native of Nashville, Tennessee and a Morehouse College graduate who also served as board chairman of the NAACP for 10 years until 2010, Bond was elected the Georgia House of Representatives in 1965, and later to six terms in the Georgia Senate.
He was the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center and one of 11 African Americans elected to the Georgia General Assembly after passage of the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act of 1965, which expanded voter registration to Blacks.
After 22 years in the Georgia state legislature, he taught at several universities in major cities in the North and South including American,[35] Drexel,[36] Harvard,[37] and the University of Virginia, where he taught until 2012.[28] Bond was on the Board of Selectors of Jefferson Awards for Public Service.[38] (References by Wikipedia.com)
Bond is survived by his wife of 24 years, Pamela Horowitz, five children; Phyllis Jane Bond-McMillan, Horace Mann Bond II, Michael Julian Bond, Jeffrey Alvin Bond, and Julia Louise Bond; a brother, James Bond; a sister, Jane Bond Moore, and a host of other relatives friends, and associates. (www.clevelandurbannews.com) / (www.kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com)
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