Zócalo Public Square

From the tender age of 20, when he helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Julian Bond has been at the forefront of civil rights activism in America. Now, more than 50 years into his civil rights career, he serves as an elder statesman for the movement. In between, he served for two decades in the Georgia State Legislature, chaired the NAACP from 1998 to 2009, worked as the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, taught at several major universities, published four books and dozens of articles and poems, narrated theEyes on the Prize documentary and hosted Saturday Night Live in 1977. Bond visited Zócalo to discuss his life's work and the evolution of the civil rights movement over the past six decades.