Race Man (eBook)

lt;p>Horace Julian Bond was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, politician, professor and writer. In 1960, while attending Morehouse College in Atlanta, Bond was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, leading student protests against segregation. A founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, he served as its president in the 1970s while sitting in the Georgia House of Representatives. In 1968, Bond led a challenge delegation from Georgia to the Democratic National Congress, where he became the first African American and the youngest person to ever be nominated for Vice President of the United States, though he was ineligible due to his young age. In 1975, after ten years in the Georgia House, he served six terms in the Georgia senate, after which he taught at numerous colleges including Drexel and Harvard. In 1998, Bond was elected Board Chairman of the NAACP and, after his term, remained active as Chairman Emeritus for eleven years. He is the author of A Time To Speak, A Time To Act, a collection of his essays, as well as Black Candidates: Southern Campaign Experiences. His writing has appeared in many magazines and newspapers. He remained President Emeritus of the Southern Poverty Law Center until his death in 2015. 

Michael G. Long is an associate professor of religious studies and peace and conflict studies at Elizabethtown College, and is the author or editor of numerous books on civil rights, religion, and politics, including We the Resistance: Documenting A History of Nonviolent Protest in the United States (City Lights Books 2019) Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography (Westminster, 2017);Peaceful Neighbor: Discovering the Countercultural Mister Rogers (Westminster, 2015); I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters (City Lights 2012). Long's first book on Jackie Robinson, First Class Citizenship (Times Books)—was selected as a best book of the year byPublishers Weekly, and received critical acclaim in the New York Times and other major media outlets. His writing can be found in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago TribuneUSA Today, Huffington Post, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. His work has been featured or reviewed in or on NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, USA Today, Salon, CNN, Bookforum, Ebony/Jet,and other newspapers and journals.

Prefaces

The Love Endures by Pamela Horowitz

Practicing Dissent by Jeanne Theoharis        

Editor’s Introduction

CHAPTER ONE

The Atlanta Student Movement and SNCC

The Fuel of My Civil Rights Fire

The Conversation That Started It All

A Student Voice

Let Freedom Ring

Lonnie King Is Acid Victim

The Murder of Louis Allen

SNCC and JFK

Freedom Summer: What We Are Seeking

How to Remember the Atlanta Student Movement

SNCC: Alienated, Paranoid, and Near Collapse

SNCC’s Legacy

CHAPTER TWO

Vietnam and the Politics of Dissent

The Right to Dissent

I Consider Myself a Pacifist

Martin Luther King, Jr. and Vietnam

Elijah Muhammad and the 1968 Democratic National Convention

Eugene McCarthy and a New Politics

The Warfare State

Fighting Nixon

Rethinking Violence in America

Angela Davis Is a Political Prisoner

The Failure of Kent State

Lessons from Vietnam

CHAPTER THREE

Two Black Colonies

The Population Bomb as Justification for Genocide

Escaping from Colonialism

The United States Is a Colonial Society

Liberation in Angola and Alabama

South Africa: The Cancer on the African Continent

CHAPTER FOUR

Nixon and the Death of Youthful Protest

Nixon’s Black Supporters Should Shuffle Off

Uncle Strom’s Cabin: The Reelection of Richard Nixon

The New Civil Rights Movement

Nixon’s Racist Justification of Watergate

George Wallace Still Champion of the Politics of Race

Blacks and Jews

Why No Riots?

The Death of Youthful Protest

Politics Matters

CHAPTER FIVE

Uncle Jimmy’s Cabin

Carter Hides His Red Neck

Election 76—A Political Diary

Why I Can’t Support Jimmy Carter

SNCC Reunites, Carter Is Absent

Blacks Are Politically Impotent

Griffin Bell and the Right to Dissent

Blacks and Moral Suicide

Carter Ignores Blacks

Political Prisoners in the United States

Carter’s Misguided Fight Against Inflation

CHAPTER SIX

Civil Rights Milestones

Fannie Lou Hamer: Lady in a Homespun Dress

The Civil Rights Movement: The Beginning and the End

The Racial Tide Has Turned Against Us

King: Again a Victim

The 25^th Anniversary of Brown: Time to Do for Ourselves

1. E. B. Du Bois and John F. Kennedy—Which Is Greater?

Roy Wilkins: A Reasonable Man

CHAPTER SEVEN

Our Long National Nightmare:

Reagan, Bush, and the Assault on Women

Reagan and South Africa

A New Social Darwinism: The Survival of the Richest

Reagan’s Justice

My Father and the Death Penalty

Nicaragua and Paranoia

The Break that Never Healed: John Lewis’s Painful Criticism

Operation Rescue Is No Civil Rights Movement

A Kinder, Gentler Nation?

My Case Against Clarence Thomas

The Need for More Civil Rights Laws

In Defense of the NAACP

Dear Michael: Advice for Running for Office

CHAPTER EIGHT

The Measure of Men and Racism:

Jefferson and King, Clinton and Dole, Farrakhan and Simpson

The Most Useful Founding Father

Remembering All of Dr. King

Bill Clinton and Hope for America

Failures: Gingrich and Dole

Clinton Against Dole

Gangsta Rap

Louis Farrakhan Is a Black David Duke

The Unsurprising Acquittal of O. J. Simpson

King Supported Affirmative Action

King and the Death Penalty

CHAPTER NINE

The George W. Bush Years:

The War on Terror and the Fight for

Poor Blacks, Women, and LGBT Rights

Racial Injustice in the Criminal Justice System

Social Security and African Americans

September 11 and Beyond

Slavery and Terrorism

Our Leaders Are Wrong About the War

The NAACP and the Right to Reproductive Freedom

Are Gay Rights Civil Rights?

AIDS Is a Major Civil Rights Issue

Why I Will March for LGBT Rights

In Katrina’s Wake

We Must Persevere

CHAPTER TEN

Barack Obama and Ongoing Bigotry

Civil Rights: Now and Then

What Barack Obama Means

Homophobia and Black America

Same-Sex Marriage: More than a White Issue

Religion-Based Exemptions Discriminate Against LGBT People

The Civil War and the Confederate Flag

Voting Rights: Which Side Are You On?

Voting Rights Again: The Most Pressing Domestic Issue Today

We All Must Protest

Our Journey Is Nowhere Near Over

Afterword by Douglas Brinkley

Acknowledgments