Julian Bond

CTL-E-6069 · Person · other · 1940–2015

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Combined Graph record U-07292 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-6069.

Horace Julian Bond, born 14 January 1940 in Nashville, Tennessee, was a civil rights leader, Georgia legislator, professor and writer. The son of educator Horace Mann Bond, he attended Morehouse College in Atlanta, where in 1960 he helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and served as its communications director, leaving college to work full time in the movement before completing his degree in 1971. Elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1965, he was denied his seat by legislators who objected to his opposition to the Vietnam War; the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Bond v. Floyd that his exclusion was unconstitutional, and he took his seat in 1967. He served twenty years in the Georgia House and Senate, co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center in 1971 and served as its first president, and narrated the landmark PBS documentary series Eyes on the Prize. From 1998 to 2010 he chaired the NAACP, and he taught history at the University of Virginia from 1992 until retiring in 2012, teaching more than five thousand students. Bond died on 15 August 2015 in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, aged 75.

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• Also known as: Horace Julian Bond

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Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 5 — 747 Program, Wave 11; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Julian Bond entity in the live graph at 3,763 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-6069 assigned at assembly. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1458 (Civil Rights Leaders list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — African American SNCC co-founder, Georgia legislator, SPLC co-founder and NAACP chairman. Vital status: DECEASED — died 15 August 2015, Fort Walton Beach, Florida, aged 75 (University of Virginia; JBHE). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Georgia legislature: 20 years across House and Senate; NAACP chairman 1998–2010; U.Va. classes drew more than 5,000 students; named a Library of Congress Living Legend in 2008 (UVa; Wikipedia, accessed 2026-10-16). MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons photograph of Julian Bond, 2000; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-temp-1458-julian-bond.svg); video HELD (Shorts Link Map checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short); audio HELD (no rights basis). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging.)

Relationships

• Atlanta, Georgia — based in
  Bond's movement and legislative career was centered in Atlanta, Georgia (CTL-E-4223): Morehouse College, the Georgia legislature, and his Atlanta civil-rights leadership.
• Morehouse College — affiliated with
  Bond attended Morehouse College (CTL-E-1624) in Atlanta, where he co-founded SNCC; he completed his Morehouse degree in 1971.
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) — member of organization
  Bond chaired the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (CTL-E-0498) from 1998 to 2010.
• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) — founded
  Bond helped establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (CTL-E-5421) while a student at Morehouse College in 1960, and served as its communications director.

Sources

• University of Virginia, 'Julian Bond, Civil Rights Icon and Beloved Retired U.Va. Professor, Has Died' (17 Aug 2015) — Bond died Saturday night (15 Aug 2015) in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, aged 75; an original SNCC leader at Morehouse, he chaired the NAACP from 1998 to 2010, co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center in 1971, served 20 years in the Georgia legislature, and taught at U.Va. from 1992 to 2012 — https://as.virginia.edu/news/julian-bond-civil-rights-icon-and-beloved-retired-uva-professor-has-died (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, 'Julian Bond' — Horace Julian Bond (14 January 1940 – 15 August 2015); helped establish SNCC at Morehouse; served four terms in the Georgia House and six in the Georgia Senate (20 years total); NAACP chairman 1998–2010 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Bond (build store)
• Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 'In Memoriam: Horace Julian Bond, 1940–2015' (Aug 2015) — Bond died 15 August 2015 in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, aged 75; elected to the Georgia House in 1965; co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center in 1971; NAACP chair 1998–2010 — https://jbhe.com/2015/08/in-memoriam-horace-julian-bond-1940-2015/ (build store)

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