Today, 1966, The Georgia State Legislature refused to seat Julian Bond, despite his election victory the previous November. Their objection was his stance against the Vietnam War. Bond took the case all the way to the Supreme Court where they ruled that Bond’s exclusion was unconstitutional, and Bond was finally sworn in the following month. The court declared that the state could not apply “loyalty tests” to legislators or undermine their First Amendment protections. Bond knew the case was going well when, after the Georgia Attorney General finished his argument one of the judges, Justice Byron White asked him, “Is that all you have? You come all this way and that’s all you have.” In a unanimous decision, the three judges ordered the Georgia House of Representatives to seat Julian Bond. Below, link to Bond's 1966 statement on his being denied his seat: https://www.crmvet.org/docs/660110_bond_statement.pdf
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Posted by gm on 1/19/2025, 6:28 pm, in reply to "Todat in History"
Brave & brilliant guy! And one of the most articulate of the activists, which most folks don't appreciate. However, he entered politics and kinda lost his way - kinda sold his soul!
Strangely enough, it was his fellow Civil Rights struggler who helped diminish Bond's reputation when they ran for Congress against each other! John Lewis called Julian Bond a drug head. Ouch! Lewis did to Bond what he did to Bernie Sanders, diminishing Sander's activism during the Civil Rights struggle. That was terrible!
But my main issue with Julian Bond is how he made the NAACP an extension of the Democratic Party. He started that nonsense when he used the NAACP to attack George Bush in an explicit demogoguery way. In fact, Bond & the NAACP attacked George Bush the way the Democratic party attacked & demonized Donald Trump during our last election. The scaremongering was exactly the same. MAY JULIAN BOND CONTINUE TO REST IN PEACE. AMEN
Hmmmmm, I never knew that Bond narrated the landmark 14-episode documentary on the civil rights movement, "Eyes on the Prize". Another thing I didn't know about Bond was that he also advocated for Africans in Europe. Bond was a radical long before MLK, and hmmmmm, he was also a light skinned brotha, kinda like Elijah Muhammad's complexion, hahaha!!
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Brave & brilliant guy! And one of the most articulate of the activists, which most folks don't appreciate. However, he entered politics and kinda lost his way - kinda sold his soul!
Strangely enough, it was his fellow Civil Rights struggler who helped diminish Bond's reputation when they ran for Congress against each other! John Lewis called Julian Bond a drug head. Ouch! Lewis did to Bond what he did to Bernie Sanders, diminishing Sander's activism during the Civil Rights struggle. That was terrible!
But my main issue with Julian Bond is how he made the NAACP an extension of the Democratic Party. He started that nonsense when he used the NAACP to attack George Bush in an explicit demogoguery way. In fact, Bond & the NAACP attacked George Bush the way the Democratic party attacked & demonized Donald Trump during our last election. The scaremongering was exactly the same. MAY JULIAN BOND CONTINUE TO REST IN PEACE. AMEN
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