Civil Rights Activist Julian Bond Has Died

By Maryann Yin 

When King Came to U.Va., MLK Celebration 2011Civil rights activist Julian Bond has died. He was 75 years old.

Throughout his lifetime, Bond (pictured, via) served as a chairman of the NAACP, lawmaker, and college professor. As a writer, he became well known for his essays and poetry. The New York Times reports that he published a book of essays entitled A Time to Speak, A Time to Act 1972.

Here’s more from The Boston Globe: “Most of Mr. Bond’s poetry reflected the pained point of view of a repressed minority. But his most famous was perhaps a two-line doggerel that he dashed off after one too many overly concerned white students offended him by saying, ‘If only they were all like you.’ The verse: ‘Look at that girl shake that thing / We can’t all be Martin Luther King.'” (via CNN)