The Pacer

Issue date: 2/27/07 Section: Campus News

Civil rights leader Julian Bond will serve as the keynote speaker for the annual UTM Civil Rights Conference and as a participant on the university's Academic Speakers Series program at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, in Watkins Auditorium in the UC.

"Julian Bond is one of the most significant figures of the Civil Rights movement, a movement that he continues to serve after almost 50 years in the forefront," said Dan McDonough, UTM honors program director. "He is a national treasure."

Bond has served in prominent roles in several organizations dedicated to civil rights. Most prominently, he has served on the board of directors of the NAACP for years and has served as chairman of the board since 1998. He also sits on the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization which he helped found and served as first president from 1971 to 1979.

A collection of his essays has been published as "A Time to Speak, A Time to Act." His poetry has been published in "American Negro Poetry," and he has published numerous essays and articles in most of the leading American newspapers.

Bond currently serves as Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the American University in Washington, D.C., and as a professor of history at the University of Virginia.

His appearance is part of the UTM Civil Rights Conference.

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