Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BOND left the platform before his standing ovation was over. Several days later, returning from speaking engagements at other colleges, he laid over in Boston between flights, before returning to Atlanta. He was anxious to get home to his wife and four children and to talk with his colleagues about a black caucus of southern politicians coming up. Bond's seriousness is in sharp contrast to his youthful appearance. He talks about the South as if it is his family; and with a conviction and familiarity not in keeping with...
...Even before the convention," Bond says, "people were trying to get me to leave the South, to move North and go into national politics. But the South is my home--it's my life, I love it. I know the people and their politics and what it's going to take to move mountains, even the little ones, down there. That's my battlefield, and those are my people. I can't and won't let them down, particularly now when the real political work has to be done...
...Bond is one of the 11 black members of the Georgia legislature (out of 270 seats). He feels that there is still a great deal of work to do as Representative of Georgia's 136th district, located in Atlanta. At the moment he is trying to get foundation money to do voter education and registration work in Atlanta and also set up a communications network among black southern politicians throughout the South. Bond believes that a great deal of progress can be made rapidly since, as he says, "as opposed to the North, we can see far more clearly what...
...that's only half the battle, as Bond readily admits. He must also do the same thing that he described to the audience at Babson: devise new alternatives coupled with political power. "This involves politicizing poor whites as well as blacks," Bond says. "In the main, the poor white and most blacks in the South are facing the same kinds of political and economic oppression. This is why building alliances between economic strata of whites and blacks is going to be so crucial to cracking the oppressive syndrome of southern politics. Something that won't change as quickly...
...JULIAN BOND has proved himself capable of overcoming the most formidable political opposition in dramatizing the political problems peculiar to the South--from sit-ins in Atlanta to seating at the national Democratic Convention. It is not surprising that people concerned with a "new politics," like those at Babson, will increasingly urge him toward a role in national politics. One development which may reconcile the dilemma between a national audience and a more narrowly southern one for Bond is the probability that Atlanta, through state reapportionment in 1970, will emerge as a predominantly black congressional constituency. Julian Bond would obviously...