[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5925]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              CELEBRATING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF JULIAN BOND

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, Julian Bond was and is a great civil rights 
leader. He founded SNCC in the sixties and fought for civil rights in 
this country. He was a Georgia State senator for 20 years, and had to 
fight and go to the Supreme Court for First Amendment rights.
  He was the chairman of the board of the National Association for the 
Advancement of Colored People, NAACP, for many years. He's also been a 
professor of civil rights history at the University of Virginia for the 
last 20 years, and he'll be retiring on May 1.
  On May 2, there will be a dinner in New York at the Plaza Hotel to 
raise money for the Julian Bond Civil Rights History Chair at the 
University of Virginia, an opportunity for people to see that civil 
rights history is taught at the University of Virginia for time 
immemorial. After Julian retires, civil rights history will continue to 
be taught at the University of Virginia, as it should be taught at 
every school, and not just in February, Black History Month.
  I commend Julian Bond, and I commend the University of Virginia for 
having hired him to teach the course and for having a chair in his 
honor, and encourage all to support such May 2, New York City.
  Thank you, Mr. Bond.

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