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Julian Bond

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Julian Bond gained national recognition as a civil rights activist, longtime board chairman of the NAACP and co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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1962

Takes MLK social philosophy course

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Bond takes a social philosophy class at Morehouse College taught by King, one year before the civil rights leader would give his “I Have a Dream” speech in the nation’s capital.

A lot of people will tell you they are a student of Martin Luther King Jr. But Martin Luther King Jr. only taught one class in his lifetime. There were only eight students in that class. I was one of the eight.