Horace Mann Bond

His mother had graduated from Oberlin College in Ohio, and his father graduated from Berea College in Berea, Kentucky, in 1892.

James Bond later served as a Berea College Trustee from 1896 to 1914.

Both Berea and Oberlin are among the first colleges that were interracial.

His parents were among the black elite with their educations and encouraged their children in academic achievement.

Horace was the sixth of seven children.

One of his brothers, J. Max Bond, Sr., became a prominent educator.

During his childhood, Bond had several unpleasant encounters with whites.

In one incident a white man shot at their house after having a fight with Horace's older brothers.

In another, his father was arrested by a white neighbor, who was a police officer, when the Bond family moved into an all-white street.

Bond excelled in school, entering high school at the age of nine and college at fourteen.

Horace Mann Bond (November 8, 1904 – December 21, 1972) was an American historian, college administrator, social science researcher and the father of civil-rights leader Julian Bond.

He earned graduate and doctoral degrees from University of Chicago at a time when only a small percentage of any young adults attended any college.

Horace was born November 8, 1904, in Nashville, Tennessee, the grandson of enslaved Africans.

Both his parents were college educated.

His mother, Jane Alice Browne, was a schoolteacher, and his father, James Bond, was a minister who served at Congregational churches across the South, often associated with historically black colleges.

She was a student he met while teaching at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in the 1920s.

Julia Washington was from a wealthy and prominent African-American family of mixed race in Nashville.

Bond graduated in 1923 at age 19 with honors from Lincoln University, a historically black college in Pennsylvania.

He was a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity.

Bond married Julia Agnes Washington in 1930.

His early work was recognized by the Rosenwald Fund, which granted him fellowships in 1931 and 1932 and went on to support most of the rest of his career.

He published his first academic book in 1934.

Bond earned the M.A. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Chicago, where his dissertation on black education in Alabama won the Rosenberger Prize in 1936.

He was an influential leader at several historically black colleges and was appointed the first president of Fort Valley State University in Georgia in 1939, where he managed its growth in programs and revenue.

It was published in 1939.

As was customary in those years, Bond taught at a variety of academic institutions before completing his doctorate.

She and Horace had three children: Jane Margaret, born 1939; Horace Julian, born in 1940; and James, born in 1944.

Bond and his wife had high expectations for all three of their children.

Jane Bond Moore became a labor lawyer specializing in employment discrimination.

She formerly represented the Oakland Unified School District and the Federal Trade Commission.

She currently teaches Employment Law and Civil Rights Law at John F. Kennedy University College of Law.

James Bond was a politician and member of the Atlanta City Council.

Julian Bond (1940-2015) was chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1998 to 2010.

In 1945, he became the first African-American president of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania.

In the 1960s, he became a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, founding the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), of black college students.

Julian Bond was elected to both houses of the state legislature in Georgia, where he served a total of 20 years.

At Penn State, where he went for graduate work, Bond realized that he was able to compete with white classmates, and earned competitive grades above the 90th percentile.

Later Bond returned to Lincoln University to work as an instructor.

Bond then suffered the only setback to his success; he was dismissed from the college for tolerating a gambling ring in a dormitory which he was supervising.

Despite his embarrassment at Lincoln, Bond achieved a reputation as a fine scholar and administrator.