Word: bonde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Julian Bond style of the handsome and articulate young Southern black politician, Cooper has earned the support of the predominantly white Prichard police force by promising to get more federal aid for pay and equipment. In a city where the median income is under $5,000 a year, any help he can bring in through his knowledge of federal aid programs is sorely needed. His personality and promises have earned some grudging white support. "He may be a nigger," said one police sergeant, "but he's sure the smartest mayor we ever had." Explained AJ. Lawler, a 25-year...
...South this was Julian Bond, and he chose as his pet political charities the Voter Education Project and the Youth Citizenship Fund. "In the South, there's only one group that effectively registers older black voters, and that's the VEP. And, there's only one group that effectively registers young people, and that's the Youth Citizenship Fund." Bond explains. However, perhaps also influencing Bond's choice of charities was the fact that James Bond. Julian's younger brother, heads the southeastern region of the YCF and that John Lewis, the former head of SNCC and a close crony...
Even Julian Bond, who had met the previous weekend with McGovern and Gary Hart in Washington, guardedly expressed misgivings about the prenomination pact with McGovern: "It was easier for us to deliver to him than for him to deliver to us," he said...
...money. No one ever supported George McGovern in hopes of getting rich by doing so. What Stokes was talking about is the fact that the McGovern campaign held out the promise of providing blacks with an opportunity of really getting into the business of politics--which is, as Julian Bond said, the business of deciding who will get what from whom--and he has as yet failed to live up to that promise...
...fact, perhaps it is as Julian Bond says: "The tragedy of black people in the election of 1972 is that there are few ways for us to go. Before the convention, there was McGovern, Muskie, Humphrey, and Shirley Chisholm. Now, it's reduced down to McGovern and Nixon...