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Bond was born on January 14, 1940 at Hubbard Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, to parents Julia Agnes (Washington) and Horace Mann Bond.
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Bond was born on January 14, 1940 at Hubbard Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, to parents Julia Agnes (Washington) and Horace Mann Bond.
As the civil rights movement was gathering force in the late 1950's, he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga. In 1960, he helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and then in 1961 he dropped out of college a semester short of graduation in order to work full time for SNCC.
Bond first came to national attention when, after having been elected to the Georgia house of representatives in 1965, he was barred from his seat by that body when it convened in January 1966. Although many blacks believed that the house acted because of Bond's race, those who opposed him said that it was because he had endorsed a SNCC statement expressing support for people "unwilling to respond to a military draft. " SNCC was then generally viewed as the most militant of the existing civil rights organizations, and the statement on the draft was issued during the buildup of U. S. forces for the Vietnam War. Bond was elected to the seat a second time in a special election called by the governor to fill the vacancy caused by his exclusion, and he was again barred. He fought for the seat in the courts and finally won in the U. S. Supreme Court on the ground that the action of the Georgia house had interfered with his First Amendment right to freedom of speech. He was seated in 1967 and served until 1974, when he was elected to the Georgia senate. In 1968 his name was placed before the Democratic national convention as a candidate for the party's vice-presidential nomination, but he declined that honor on the ground that, under the Constitution, he was seven years too young to hold the office. Bond's incisive intellect and quick humor also made him a favorite on the college lecture circuit in the 1970's.
Bond ran for the United States House of Representatives from Georgia's 5th congressional district in 1986. He lost the Democratic nomination in a runoff to rival civil rights leader John Lewis in a bitter contest, during which Bond was accused of using cocaine and other drugs. During the campaign, Lewis challenged Bond to take a drug test (Lewis had said he took one and passed). Bond refused, saying the drug test was akin to McCarthyism and trivializes the issue of drugs.
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Bond was a strong critic of the Bush administration from its assumption of office in 2001, in large part because Bond believed the administration was illegitimate. Twice that year, first in February to the NAACP board and then in July at that organization's national convention, he attacked the administration for selecting Cabinet secretaries "from the Taliban wing of American politics". Bond specifically targeted Attorney General John Ashcroft, who had opposed affirmative action, and Interior Secretary Gale Norton, who defended the Confederacy in a 1996 speech on states' rights. In the selection of these individuals, Bond said, Bush had appeased "the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing and chosen Cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection. " Then House Majority Leader Dick Armey responded to Bond's statement with a letter accusing NAACP leaders of "racial McCarthyism. " Bond later added at the annual NAACP convention that year, that since Bush's election he had "had his picture taken with more black people than voted for him. "
On July 28, 1961, Bond married Alice Clopton, a student at Spelman College. They divorced on November 10, 1989. They had five children: Phyllis Jane Bond-McMillan, Horace Mann Bond II, Michael Julian Bond (an Atlanta City Councilman), Jeffrey Alvin Bond and Julia "Cookie" Louise Bond. He married Pamela Sue Horowitz, a former SPLC staff attorney, in 1990.