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Julian Bond:
The grandson of a slave and the son of a college president, Julian Bond was 20 when he started a civil rights group at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Inspired by the Greensboro sit-ins, he and fellow students protested segregation in Atlanta. A founding member of SNCC, Bond was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives at age 25 and later served in the state Senate. He became chairman of the NAACP, the nation's oldest civil rights group, in 1998. |