Alumni and Children of Noted African American Scholar Reflect on 'Growing Up Bond'

CSW alumni James George Bond ’63 and Jane Bond Moore ’55, their brother Julian Bond, children of African American scholar and civil rights advocate Horace Mann Bond, will be part of a special talk at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst on February 12 to celebrate the digitization of their father's academic papers.

The conversation titled, “Growing Up Bond,” will focus on the Bond family experience of coming of age in a community of black intellectuals and reflect on what it was like to be a child of Horace Mann Bond, a noted African American educator and scholar.

Horace Mann Bond, a grandson of slaves, was an instrumental figure in the growth of historically black colleges in the era following Brown v. Board of Education. He earned his masters and doctorate degrees from the University of Chicago during the 1930’s, when very few African Americans attended college, and was the first African American president of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. His personal collection of papers and writings, which was recently digitized and is being celebrated at the University of Amherst’s Department of Special Collections, contain correspondence with influential black scholars and leaders of his time.

Jane Bond Moore ’55 is a civil rights attorney and a professor of history and political science at Notre Dame de Nanmur University in Belmont, Calif. James Bond ’63 is a retired radio and television producer. Their brother, Julian Bond, was a leader in the American civil rights movement, a former member of the Georgia state legislature, and a president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

Horace Mann Bond was also uncle to the late Maxwell Bond ’51, an influential New York architect and one of a few black architects of national prominence.

'Conversation: Growing Up Bond'
Date: February 12, 2014
Time: 4 p.m.
Location: Student Union Ballroom (UMass Amherst Campus)
Amilcar Shabazz, Faculty Advisor to the Chancellor for Diversity and Excellence, will moderate the discussion of the Bonds’ reflections on coming of age in a community of distinguished Black intellectuals. Professor John Bracey will share the history of Bond’s Papers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.