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Julian Bond

Biography

Horace Julian Bond was an American social activist, leader of the civil rights movement, politician, professor, and writer. While he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he helped establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Known For

Motown 40: The Music is Forever
Motown 40: The Music is Forever
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power
Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power
Violence: An American Tradition
Violence: An American Tradition
We'll Never Turn Back
We'll Never Turn Back

Filmography

2023 Rather
as Self - Congressman from Georgia (archive footage)
2020 John Lewis: Good Trouble
as Self (archive footage)
2015 The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee [SNCC]
2014 5 to 7
as Himself
2014 Freedom Summer
as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
2013 Julian and John January 8, 2013
as Himself
2013 Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
as Self
2010 The Art of the Steal
as Himself
2009 Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy
as Self
2007 Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater
as Self
2004 Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power
as Self
1998 Motown 40: The Music is Forever
as Self
1995 Violence: An American Tradition
as
1988 American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
1987 Eyes on the Prize
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1986 In Remembrance of Martin
as Self
1977 Greased Lightning
as Russell
1975 Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
1963 We'll Never Turn Back
as Self
1961 The Mike Douglas Show
as Self