Julian Bond: Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement

Julian Bond Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement is a documentary film by Eduardo MontesBradley for Heritage Film Project, a portrait of social activist and former Georgia legislator Julian Bond. In the film Bond approaches the Civil Rights Movement from a personal perspective. Bonds father was the first AfricanAmerican president of Pennsylvanias Lincoln University, and the family hosted black luminaries in education and the arts, but Bond recalls growing up in the era of separate but equal laws. Bond also talks about his early involvement with the Civil Rights Movement, his nomination at the age offor vice president of the United States, and the Georgia legislatures efforts to prevent him from being seated as a representative on the grounds that he had not supported the Vietnam War. The film explores the 1963 March on Washington, Martin Luther King Jr., the assassinations of King and John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnsons impact on U.S. race relations. Bond also offers his own insights, and adds some personal revelations, such as the fact that he was a published poet during his college years. The film closes with a montage of major AfricanAmerican figures from Frederick Douglass and Karl Marx, to Abraham Lincoln and Spike Lee. Julian Bond, premiered at the Virginia Film Festival on November 4, 2012.

Through interviews and archival footage, the film documents Bonds life and, in particular, the role he played in the civil rights movement. The first part of the film concentrates on the historical factors that led to the March On Washington in August 28, 1963. These factors are brought to light through the telling of the sagas of Bonds grandfather, James Bonda man born in slavery who went on to graduate from Berea College and Oberlin Collegeand Jane Arthur Bond, Julians greatgrandmother. Julians father, Horace Mann Bond, onetime president of Lincoln College in Pennsylvania, is also featured. The familycentered segment of the film is illustrated with photos from the Bond family albums that were loaned to the producers by members of the Bond family.The second act begins with the March on Washington and Bonds entrance into politics at age 23, and concludes with his manifest opposition to the Vietnam War. ........

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