Horace Julian Bond (1940 - 2015)

Born 14 Jan 1940 in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States

Ancestors

Died 15 Aug 2015 at age 75 in Fort Walton Beach, Okaloosa, Florida, United States

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Biography

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

Julian Bond is Notable.

Julian Bond was awarded the Spingarn Medal for outstanding achievement by an African American.

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]

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Bond
2. ↑ "Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014"
   Virginia Department of Health; Richmond, Virginia; Virginia, Marriages, 1936-2014 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 9279 #15761196 (accessed 13 November 2021)
   Horace Julian Bond marriage to Pamela Sue Horowitz on 17 Mar 1990 in Arlington, Virginia, USA.
3. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150809160/julian-bond : accessed 22 March 2022), memorial page for Julian Bond (14 Jan 1940–15 Aug 2015), Find A Grave: Memorial #150809160, citing South View Cemetery, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA ; Maintained by Find a Grave.

• "2015 Tributes," People (Special Edition), Time Life Books: New York, New York. 2015, p91.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K7PW-ZPW : 29 February 2020), Horace Bond in household of Horace M Bond, Fort Valley, Militia District 1813, Peach, Georgia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 111-5, sheet 1A, line 4, family 1, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 700.

See Also:

• The Atlanta Voice Atlanta, Georgia. 21 Aug 2015, Fri. Page 1
• The Atlanta Constitution. Atlanta, Georgia. 17 Aug 2015, Mon. Page A1
• Wikidata: Item Q6306998