Julian Bond: Their Goal Was to Crush Dissent

Julian Bond is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the American University in Washington, D.C., and professor of history at the University of Virginia. He first became immersed in the civil rights movement as a college student in the early 1960s in Atlanta. He led student sit-ins and helped form the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Since then, he's had a long public service career, including serving as a Georgia lawmaker and chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Bond knows he's been under government scrutiny but that has never deterred him from pursuing social justice.