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MLK Celebration Keynote: Julian Bond

Presented by Vanderbilt University at Vanderbilt University - Langford Auditorium

January 17, 2011

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Civil rights leader and former NAACP Chairman Julian Bond will deliver the keynote address at Vanderbilt University commemorating the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, Jan. 17.

Born in Nashville, Bond is an activist, writer, teacher and lecturer who helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) while a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta during the early 1960s. He was the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center and served 20 years in the Georgia General Assembly. He was chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, from 1998 until early 2010. He currently is a distinguished adjunct professor at American University in Washington, D.C., and a professor of history at the University of Virginia.

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    Vanderbilt University - Langford Auditorium

    Garland Ave.
    Nashville, TN 37240

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    January 17, 2011

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    Monday 4:30pm

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