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Julian Bond, 1940-2015
Leroy Johnson, born 1928
In 1960, Tennessee-born Julian Bond (right) became the communications director for the Atlanta-based Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization that focused on civil rights. He was elected to the Georgia State Legislature in 1965 but was not allowed to take his seat because of his anti-war stance. After the U.S. Supreme Court decreed that Georgia's legislature had acted unconstitutionally, Bond finally joined the chamber in January 1967.
George Tames photographed Bond with one of his supporters, Leroy Johnson (left), in front of the Georgia State Capitol's main entrance. Elected to the Georgia State Senate in 1962, Johnson was the first African American since 1907 to serve in the state's legislature.
George Tames, c 1968 |