In Memoriam Julian Bond
Paul Craig Roberts
Julian Bond, the black
civil rights activist who was thrice elected to the Georgia legislature before
the US Supreme Court finally ruled that the Georgia House could not deny him
his seat, died on August 15.
Julian Bond was a student
at Morehouse College, one of the colleges that made up Atlanta University, when
I was a student at Georgia Tech. I was active on the International Students
Committee at Tech. The committee had sponsored several dark skinned students
from abroad, and we could only get them into the movie theaters by having them
wrap their heads in turbans and show their Ga Tech student ID. As Ga Tech
itself was segregated, a Tech ID was proof that the movie ticket purchaser was
on the right side of the color line. We were interested when we heard that Bond
had formed a student rights organization working to desegregate the movie
theaters in the city.
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