In a Final Speech, Civil Rights Icon Julian Bond Declares: "We Must Practice Dissent" | Democracy Now!

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In a Final Speech, Civil Rights Icon Julian Bond Declares: "We Must Practice Dissent"

 In one of his final speeches, the late civil rights leader Julian Bond
spoke at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on May 2, 2015, as part of
the "Vietnam: Power of Protest" conference. He was introduced by the
actor and activist Danny Glover. Julian Bond died on August 15 at the
age of 75. Bond first gained prominence in 1960 when he organized a
series of student sit-ins while attending Morehouse College. He went on
to help found SNCC, the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee. Julian Bond would go on to co-found the Southern
Poverty Law Center. He served as the organization’s first president
from 1971 to 1979. From 1998 to 2010, he was chairman of the NAACP.