Julian Bond

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July 27, 2020

Name: Julian Bond
Born: 01/14/1940
Died: 08/15/2015 (75 years old)

Horace Julian Bond (January 14, 1940– August 15, 2015) was an American social activist and leader of the civil rights movement, politician, professor and writer. While he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he helped establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1971, he helped found the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, and served as its first president for nearly a decade.

School: Morehouse College, (BA, English, 1971)

Alias: Horace Julian Bond

Party: Democratic

Birth Place: Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.

Death Place: Fort Walton Beach, Florida, U.S.

Source: Wikipedia

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As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.
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Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.
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I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.
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