NAACP president discusses new rights mission in visit to UI
URBANA – The first and only class that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. taught at Morehouse College in Atlanta drew just eight students.
Civil rights veteran Julian Bond, the current chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was one of them.
And on Wednesday night, Bond, 69, drew a few hundred students to the University of Illinois' Alice Campbell Alumni Center during the last of a series of public interviews with black leaders as part of a collaboration between the University of Illinois and The History Makers, an oral archive project based in Chicago.
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