Julian Bond - Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement

Streaming video - 2012

Julian Bond: Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement is a portrait of social activist and former Georgia legislator in which Julian Bond approaches the Civil Rights Movement from a personal perspective. “Bond's father was the first African-American president of Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, and the family hosted black luminaries in education and the arts, but Bond recalls growing up in the era of "separate but equal" laws”. In the film Bond also recalls his involvement with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), his nomination for vice president of the United States at the age of 28, and the Georgia legislature's efforts to prevent him from being seated as a representativ...e on the grounds that he had not supported the Vietnam War.. The film explores the 1963 March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., the assassinations of King and John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson's impact on U.S. race relations.. more