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I was hit on the head with a wooden crate, left lying in the street semiconscious. People in New York and California saw me on TV and said, ‘That guy’s going some place. He thought it was possible to change one restaurant or one voting pattern.

. Stanley Wise argues that Bond might have been “too sophisticated for the electorate.” Manuel Maloof, never one to pull punches, says “the people recognized that Bond had never contributed much. He wasn’t interested in what we were talking about.”“One of the things the civil rights movement showed every man,” adds Stanley Wise, a former executive secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), “was that a wealth of women of every race, class and description were completely at your beck and call.

"I had a 2-week-old baby, and I did not want to commute back and forth to D.C."Although Collins left election politics behind, he has remained deeply invested in various public campaigns and causes. He had unbelievable opportunities. “My first nonviolent protest,” Lewis says, “was against my mother and father when they wanted to kill some chickens or trade ’em to the rolling store for flour or sugar. Her boyfriend came up, picked her up and put her aside. When the two were forced into a runoff, Lewis says, “I knew I’d win. However, in 1966 the In 1968, Bond got into the national limelight. He just didn’t take advantage.”Bond, sitting after class in an office in the Afro-American Studies Center, lights a Salem and dismisses—though not without bitterness—the scrutiny of his personal affairs. There was a restaurant four or five blocks from Fisk University. "I wanted to meet him because he was such a well-known civil rights hero," Collins said. He said, ‘Yeah, but we’re gonna march.’“The next person made his speech. On the way to Parchman, one of the deputies looked me over and said, ‘We got niggers in there that will eat you up.’”In his memorable 1967 profile, Marshall Frady captured what may have been the essential Julian Bond, a tall, boyishly handsome, “whimsically improbably revolutionary . He introduced himself to the renowned councilman in the middle of the street; Lewis, according to Collins, said "Let's continue our conversation" and walked back with Collins to the curb. An angry mob, maybe 2,000 people with baseball bats, lead pipes and chains, rushed at us. They lived in “Carter’s Quarters,” a tract that had been home to Willie Mae Carter’s family since slavery days. ” In The Bonds, Williams quoted a supporter who said: “ Julian was increasingly becoming the glamour boy of the delegation. role in the civil rights movement and continued his battle to ensure equality for all Americans . “You feel people have individually rejected you,” says Bond. "By the time the race boiled down to Bond, a veteran state senator, and Lewis, at that time an Atlanta City Council member, Bond was the favorite, according to pollsters and the media. I’d seen TV pictures of high school students in Little Rock in ’57 integrating the schools.

. They left on Wednesday morning, May 17, and got as far as Birmingham, where public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor wrapped them in protective custody and dumped them back on the Tennessee state line. Prepping for the trip in Washington, D.C., Lewis, then 21, ate his first Chinese food.

. )According to Collins, his relationship with Lewis was entirely accidental — or fateful, if you will.The son of an Army officer whose career took him all over the globe, the Columbus, Georgia-born Collins — one of eight siblings — grew up in Japan, Hawaii and "all over the place" before the family settled in Los Angeles, where Collins finished high school.After serving five years at Fort Benning, Georgia, under his West Point "military obligation," the newly married Collins — his first wife was Leah Sears, who later became chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court — began working at the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta. "Among the campaign's controversies was a Collins-devised drug test strategy.Late in the campaign, Lewis took a drug test at a hospital, which determined that he was drug-free. History at your fingertips I’m confused as to why it’s not enough for anyone else.”Others say the twin tales of John Lewis and Julian Bond teach more secular lessons. I had just never seen such brutality.“A lot of people had not wanted to go to this particular restaurant, but John was determined. Julian Bond has been at the forefront of the Civil Rights Movement in America since 1960. “I’ll never forget that as long as I live. Bond refused, saying he opposed drug tests in the workplace, so he would not legitimize their use in a political campaign.

“Many times, I thought John might be killed. . Over time he grew comfortable with the intellectual process of crafting legislation and the precise rituals of parliamentary procedure. “I saw the life of my mother, my father, my grandfather, my great-grandfather had lived.

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