Civil Rights Survivors
Even Julian Bond, it appears as a suite. In the evening, in April this year, about 60 friends, colleagues and well-wishers sitting in folding chairs on the mezzanine of the University of Virginia library. Seven people - one after another - walk to the podium and talk bountifully of borrowing. Finally, the newly elected president of the National Association for the Advancement of colored people at the centre of concerns.
To Bond’s left and right are poster-sized photos of his life - Atlanta Bond, Bond in Birmingham, U-VA Bond. On a table near the leaders to consider presented books on the rights of citizens, including many parts or whole chapters dedicated Bond. A strip of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced “snick”) Freedom Singers, with the voice of gold Cordell Reagon, plays in the room.
In a white shirt, olive suit, dark, surrounded by hair and glasses silver mat, Bond sees in these collected, then the ceiling. “I listen to music. Funereal Some, it is,” Bond said, patting the pocket of his jacket. “But I know I’m still here.
In an age when most people would be downshifting and the trail toward retirement, Bond, 58, is in constant motion. Last year, he made more than 50 conferences in the world. He teaches history once a week at the American University and twice a week at the University of Virginia. In February, he was appointed president of the NAACP - the oldest and largest group of citizens’ rights in this country.
It is an organization, some say, what has survived its usefulness. It is the ideal place, some say, to borrow trade. At a time when the two can be considered on the hills, they found another.
Ron Walters, professor of African American studies at the University of Maryland, welcomes the election because of “sense of tradition and heritage.” But, he adds, “there is a lot of emotion that the organization should be in another direction. There is some confusion about the mission.”
Blacks, as around the NAACP, Walters says, but not always the feeling that their interests daily addresses - crime, jobs, schools, quality of life.
In Bond, the NAACP has a strong voice and solid professional who embodies the past. “Julian Bond returned to this position, with nothing to prove,” said NAACP President Kweisi Mfume. “He fought many battles of man to read or sing.”
Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy said that Bond’s choice is a blessing. “I think it is a sign of hope,” said Kennedy. “There were already many disturbing questions about the future of the NAACP during the last ten years. A persistent complaint was that the NAACP does not seem to benefit the man of talent, let’s be frank. I think Bond is a man, is very thoughtful and very clever, very well spoken. “
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