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Julian Bond - Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement

eng

videorecording

Julian Bond - Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement

956907513

Originally produced by Heritage Film Project in 2012

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Julian Bond: Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement is a portrait of social activist and former Georgia legislator in which Julian Bond approaches the Civil Rights Movement from a personal perspectivé. ђجBond's father was the first African-American president of Pennsylvania's Lincoln University, and the family hosted black luminaries in education and the arts, but Bond recalls growing up in the era of "separate but equal" lawśђح. In the film Bond also recalls his involvement with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), his nomination for vice president of the United States at the age of 28, and the Georgia legislature's efforts to prevent him from being seated as a representative on the grounds that he had not supported the Vietnam War. The film explores the 1963 March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., the assassinations of King and John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson's impact on U.S. race relations

live action