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Horace Julian Bond was an influential social-justice activist, politician, and visionary who is best known as one of the founders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). For over two decades, he taught a popular class at the University of Virginia on the history of the civil rights movement. Through his lectures, he detailed the ground-shaking disruption the movement caused, its immense unpopularity at the time, and the bravery of activists, some very young, who chose to disturb order to pursue justice. Beginning with the movement's origins in the early twentieth century, Bond tackled key events such as the Montgomery bus boycott, the Little Rock Nine, Freedom Rides, sit-ins, Mississippi voter registration, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing, the March on Washington, the Civil Rights Act, Freedom Summer, and Selma. He explained the youth activism, community ties, and strategizing required to build strenuous and successful movements. Compiled from his original lecture notes, Julian Bond's Time to Teach brings his invaluable teachings to a new generation and provides a necessary toolkit for today's activists in the era of Black Lives Matter and #MeToo.

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Horace Julian Bond (1940-2015) was a leader in the civil rights movement, a politician, a professor, a writer, and an activist. A founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, he went on to serve as president of the Southern Poverty Law Center from 1971 to 1979. He served ten years in the Georgia House and six terms in the Georgia Senate. From 1998 to 2010, he was the board chairman of the NAACP. He taught at several universities and is the author of A Time to Speak, a Time to Act. J.D. Jackson is a classically trained actor, a theater professor, an aspiring stage director, and an award-winning audiobook narrator. His television and film credits include roles on House, ER, Law & Order, Hack, Sherrybaby, Diary of a City Priest, and Lucky Number Slevin. The recipient of several audiobook awards for narration and an Odyssey Honor for G. Neri's Ghetto Cowboy, he was named one of AudioFile's Best Voices of the Year for 2012 and 2013.

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