[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 17 (Wednesday, January 28, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E167]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        RECOGNIZING JULIAN BOND

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                          HON. DAVID E. PRICE

                           of north carolina

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, January 28, 2009

  Mr. PRICE of North Carolina. Madam Speaker, I rise to congratulate 
Julian Bond, who will be recognized as the 2009 Humanitarian of the 
Year by the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP. I am proud to 
be among those honoring him at the organization's 25th Annual 
Humanitarian Awards Banquet on January 31, 2009.
  From his student days to his current chairmanship of the National 
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Julian Bond 
has been at the forefront of movements for civil rights and economic 
justice. As an activist jailed for his convictions, a veteran of more 
than 20 years in the Georgia General Assembly, and a university 
professor and writer, he has been on the cutting edge of social change 
since 1960.
  Bond has experienced firsthand overt discrimination and racial 
prejudice, and he has spent a lifetime standing up against those who 
would deny him and others equal opportunity because of the color of 
their skin. He was a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating 
Committee (SNCC) and was active in protests and registration campaigns 
throughout the South. He overcame opposition from members of the 
Georgia House of Representatives, and fought all the way to the United 
States Supreme Court in order to take his rightful seat. And he led a 
challenge delegation from Georgia to the 1968 Democratic Convention 
that successfully unseated Georgia's regular Democrats.
  Bond has served since 1998 as Chairman of the Board of the NAACP, the 
oldest and largest civil rights organization in the United States. In 
2002, he received the prestigious National Freedom Award. The holder of 
twenty-five honorary degrees, Bond is a distinguished professor at 
American University in Washington, DC, and a professor of history at 
the University of Virginia.
  Bond currently serves as Chairman of the Premier Auto Group PAG 
(Volvo, Land Rover, Aston-Martin, and Jaguar) Diversity Council and is 
on the boards of People for the American Way, the Southern Poverty Law 
Center and the Council for a Livable World, and the advisory board of 
the Harvard Business School Initiative on Social Enterprise, among 
others.
  Throughout his life and career, Dr. Bond has effected change and 
remained steadfast as an activist for social justice and civil rights 
for African-Americans and other minorities. He has led the nation by 
example, and I congratulate him for the honor he will receive in North 
Carolina on January 31.

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