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Civil Rights Activist Julian Bond Dies - chairman - 08-16-2015 Civil Rights Activist Julian Bond Dies Julian Bond, civil rights activist and former chairman of the NAACP, passed away Saturday night according to a statement from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Bond, who was 75, was the first president of SPLC and died in Fort Walton, Florida after a brief illness. When he was a student at Morehouse College in the 1960s, Bond helped create the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and became a soldier on the front lines of the ongoing civil rights battle. Re: Civil Rights Activist Julian Bond Dies - wilf - 08-16-2015 America has lost a true patriot. Re: Civil Rights Activist Julian Bond Dies - Kwami - 08-16-2015 A  giant , Legend . Remarkable man . His pursuit  of justice and equality is second to none. Great civil rights leader RIP  Julian Bond Re: Civil Rights Activist Julian Bond Dies - ketchim - 08-16-2015 survived by wife Pamela Horowitz  5 chirren , a brother and a sister ! R.I.P......as a young man with the NAACP circa 60s : he would have witnessed it all !                                                                                         Re: Civil Rights Activist Julian Bond Dies - cabrannon529 - 08-16-2015 What a shame. He could have helped so many more people.