Civil rights leader Bond to visit UI campus on Wednesday

URBANA – Civil rights leader Julian Bond will visit the University of Illinois campus Wednesday as part of a speaker series highlighting the achievements of African Americans.

Bond served four terms as a Georgia state representative and six terms in the Georgia State Senate. He was originally barred from taking his house seat in 1965 because of his outspoken statements against the Vietnam War. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor, and he was seated the next year.

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