American Civil Rights Leader Julian Bond: April 2

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Julian Bond, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)—the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization—will speak Thursday, April 2, at 12:15 p.m. in the Performing Arts Center at Rockwell Hall.

He is the keynote speaker for this year’s Leadership Lecture Series. His talk is free and open to the public.

Bond is a distinguished professor at American University and a professor of history at the University of Virginia who has tirelessly served the causes of dignity, peace, and freedom for almost half a century. His speech to campus, “Civil Rights: In the Day, Today, and Tomorrow,” will discuss the long struggle of African Americans for equality, diversity in the legislative process, and the future of civil rights issues.
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