Julian Bond: Celebration of Life Memorial Service
Lincoln University will host a memorial service celebrating the life of civil rights activist Julian Bond ’70*, son of the university’s first African American president, Dr. Horace Mann Bond ’23, ’41*, at the International Cultural Center, Thursday, Jan. 14 — which would have been Bond’s 76th birthday — at 11 a.m.
The hour-long tribute, which is free and open to the public, features a keynote address from educator and civil rights activist Robert P. Moses and musical performances from the internationally recognized Lincoln University Concert Choir. No reservation is required.
Moses is known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Since 1982, Moses has developed the nationwide Algebra Project in the United States. He has received a MacArthur Fellowship and other awards for this work, which emphasizes teaching algebra skills to minority students based on broad-based community organizing and collaboration with parents, teachers and students.
Julian Bond was born Jan. 14, 1940, in Nashville, Tennessee. His family moved to Pennsylvania five years later, where his father served as the first African American president of Lincoln University. While in college, he became a civil rights activist. In 1965, he was elected to Georgia’s state legislature, but his opposition to the Vietnam War meant that it would take a U.S. Supreme Court ruling for him to be allowed to take his seat. Bond later served as the head of the Southern Poverty Law Center and became board chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Bond died Aug. 15, 2015. He was 75.