Civil rights movement is alive and well

Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP and distinguished professor in residence in the Department of Government in the School of Public Affairs at AU, spoke to history students Nov. 5 at the Kay Spiritual Life Center. Bond recounted his rise from the small Pennsylvania town in which he grew up to his days of leading antisegregation sit-ins in Atlanta. Eventually, he was elected to the Georgia legislature, where he served for more than 20 years, and became a pivotal leader in the civil rights movement, which he said endures today. “The movement is alive and well, but it cannot succeed without the help of people like yourselves,” he told the students. —MU