Civil 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)