Timuel Black’s mother, Mattie McConner Black, in a photo taken in the 1950s. She was born in Florence, Alabama, where early blues and jazz composer W.C. Handy encouraged her interest in music.
Julian Bond and his sister Jane Marguerite Bond are being "dedicated to scholarship" by scholars Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, Dr. Edward Franklin Frazier, and Julian's father Dr. Horace Mann Bond; Front row, L. to R.: Horace Julian Bond and Jane Marguerite Bond; Back row, L. to R.: Dr. W.E.B. DuBois, Dr. E. Franklin Frazier, and Dr. Horace Mann Bond, ca. 1943. On this occasion, Jane is "dedicated to be the mother of scholars."
Julian Bond, pictured with entertainer and activist Paul Robeson, his sister, Jane Bond and daughter of university Dean, Dr. J. Newton Hill after Robeson's concert at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania; L. to R.: Jane Marguerite Bond, Sylvia Hill, Paul Robeson (seated), and Julian Bond, ca. 1950. Robeson's father, a former slave, had gone on to graduate from Lincoln University.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Julian Bond, Ralph Abernathy, and others planning civil rights strategy at the Davis Brothers Cafeteria; Clockwise from bottom left: Dr. King's brother, Rev. A. D. Williams King (facing away), unidentified waitress, Julian Bond's brother, James Bond (standing), Julian Bond (standing), Rev. Ralph David Abernathy (seated), and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Selma, Alabama, spring, 1965.
Julian Bond giving the commencement address at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, 1999. On this occasion he also received an honorary degree.
Julian Bond at age nineteen with his family in photo on a Christmas card; L to R: Bond's mother, Julia Agnes Washington Bond, brother, James Bond, Julian Bond, sister, Jane Marguerite Bond and father, Dr. Horace Mann Bond, Atlanta, Georgia, 1959.
Julian Bond (right) referees an exhibition boxing match between Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson (standing with arms raised), and boxing champ Muhammad Ali, Atlanta, Georgia, 1975. Ali would later say he was dazed by Jackson's 'droopy shorts'.
Georgia State Senator Julian Bond, U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy and Yancy Martin, head of the Southern Elections Fund, at a fundraiser for the SEF, ca. 1970s. The Southern Elections Fund is a political action committee that contributed to African American and liberal white candidates running for public office in the South.
Georgia State Representative Julian Bond tours the poverty-stricken Vine City area of his legislative district, Atlanta, Georgia, 1968. Photograph by Vernon Merritt; originally published in 'Life' magazine.
(l-r) James Atwell, James Compton during his time as President of the Board of Education, Chicago Schools Superintendent Ted Kimbrough, Mayor Richard J. Daley, an unidentified man and two unidentified women.