Horace Julian Bond was an African-American civil activist and leader who worked for the Civil Rights Movement. He was also a renowned professor, politician, and writer who pursued different professions his whole life according to his requirements. During his professional period, Bond served the Georgia legislature for a short span of time until he received a presidential nomination at the great Democratic National Convention on the 26th of August 1968. Sadly, he had been rejected from the nomination because he didn’t meet the Constitution’s mandate at the age of 28. At that time, a vice president must be 35 years-old or above.
Later after the invalidation of the presidential nomination, Bond told that the presidential nomination itself was not a serious issue and was somehow a tactic used by the Democrats so that they can easily use the associated speeches to give an explanation to the police violence and the demonstration happening outside the convention hall. He also said that the idea behind it was surely me being a president but it was something more than that and it was surely a political tactic rather than a serious joke.
Julian Bonds was a person who always wanted to see a positive change in the entire system. He was founding member of the famous Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and worked as their communications director for around five years from 1961 to 1966. For the betterment of students, he led many movements and protest involving the students against the separate public facilities in Georgia, during his college days. After graduating from college, he worked hard and formed the Southern Poverty Law Center and served as a president from 1971-1979.
In 1998, after serving ten years in the Georgia House and six different terms in the state Senate, Bond got elected as a chairman of the Board of Directors of NAACP. After getting this amazing opportunity, Bond tried his best to give extra efforts to the position he was serving at that time. Other than all these credentials, Bond also taught at different colleges and universities but continued to raise his voice in the civil rights community. His education and passion made him a person that served the nation most beautifully.
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