Civil Rights Activist Julian Bond Remembered | The Vineyard Gazette - Martha's Vineyard News:
A remembrance gathering will be held in Oak Bluffs this weekend for Julian Bond, the well-known civil rights leader and former chairman of the NAACP who died August 15 at the age of 75. The gathering will be at Inkwell Beach at 3 p.m. Saturday.
Mr. Bond, whose death was announced last weekend by the Southern Poverty Law Center, had visited the Island on more than one occasion through the years to visit friends and also speak at public forums, from the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center to the summer lecture halls of Oak Bluffs.
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