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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