But even at the height of these scandals, even at the time when our finances were at their worst, the NAACP branches - the grassroots - kept plugging away. They kept doing what they do, and they do it well.

whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection" "appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing". A federal District Court panel ruled 2-1 that the Georgia House had not violated any of Bond's federal constitutional rights. The choice fell on state lawmakers under the Georgia Constitution of 1824 because neither major party candidate had polled a majority in the general election.

Bond was elected to four terms in the Georgia House of Representatives and later to six terms in the Georgia Senate having served a combined twenty years in both legislative chambers. He was the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Horace Julian Bond (born January 14 1940) known as Julian Bond is an American social activist and leader in the American civil rights movement politician professor and writer.