Julian Bond, a civil rights leader and former board chairman of the NAACP, has died. He was 75.
Bond died Saturday night after a brief illness in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which he served as founding president in the 1970s.
The Tennessee native was on the forefront of the 1960s civil rights movement, and was among activists who protested for equal rights for African-Americans.
Bond also served as professor at various universities, including Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania.
He served as chairman of the NAACP for 11 years.
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