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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chairman, Julian Bond - Interview
NAACP chairman, Julian Bond, wants the organization to respond with greater haste to the challenges that come before it. Bond also discusses his early career in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.See the full content of this document
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Julian Bond.
There's a genial detachment to Julian Bond, fifty-eight, the newly elected chairman of the board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), as he sits down for a Progressive interview at his Washington home on a recent summer's afternoon.
He is pleasant, polite, but guarded. Getting past his public mask can be a frustrating experience. One thinks of what Mary King, his former colleague from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), wrote of Bond in her 1987 memoir, Freedom Song: "He was also maddeningly self-contained .... Sometimes, I dreamed about Julian with ill-concealed distress over my inability to know him deeply. A key broke off in my hand in one of my dreams and in another I was searching for him, but unable to find him....I spent most of my waking hours with Julian and had so much respect for him, and there r...See the full content of this document
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