Julian Bond lived, taught in Pa.

Civil rights activist Julian Bond, who died Saturday, was born in Tennessee but moved to Pennsylvania as a boy.

In 1945, his father, Horace Mann Bond, became the first African American president of Lincoln University in Chester County, according to the university website. The elder Bond served Lincoln, his alma mater, until 1957.

Julian Bond graduated in 1957 from George School, a private Quaker high school near Newtown, Bucks County.

"We were shocked and saddened to hear of Julian's death," said George head of school Nancy Starmer.

"He was a giant in the world of civil rights and a graduate of whom we were enormously proud. We've been receiving messages from George School graduates all over the world remembering him and his work.

"Please join us in holding his wife, Pamela, and his family in the Light," she said.

In September 2011, Bond spoke at a school assembly about his experiences as a politician and civil rights and student activist - and, at the time, one of the few African American students at George School.

Bond credited George School with introducing him to nonviolent social change and individual community service, according to a story about that visit on the school's website.

Bond was a frequent lecturer and teacher on college campuses. He was a Pappas Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in spring 1989 and a 1988-89 visiting professor at Drexel University. At Penn and Drexel, he taught courses in the history of the civil rights movement.

"Julian Bond was one of the great and inspirational leaders of the civil rights movement," Penn president Amy Gutmann said Sunday. "He had a passionate commitment to social justice that made our country better. We were honored to have him as a Pappas Fellow at Penn and deeply mourn his passing."

In October 1988, Bond told the Drexel student newspaper, the Triangle, that he would provide students with a personal look at some of the most influential people and events of the antiwar and civil rights movements of the late 1960s and 1970s.

"For instance, I can show students what the books say about Rosa Parks, and then tell them what Rosa Parks told me."

Bond told the Drexel reporter that his students - mostly white upperclassmen from varied age groups - had a mixed degree of knowledge about the period he was teaching.

On a survey he distributed at the beginning of the course, Bond said, every student knew who Rosa Parks was, but very few recognized the name George Wallace, the Triangle reported. (Rosa Parks, a young black woman, sparked the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955. George Wallace, three-time governor of Alabama, represented the most outspoken of the white establishment's resistance to the civil rights movement.)

Later, Bond was a history professor at the University of Virginia. He also taught at American University, Harvard University, Williams College, and Occidental College, according to his biography.

Horace Bond, while Lincoln's president, became friends with Albert C. Barnes, businessman, art collector, and founder of the Barnes Foundation in Merion. Barnes structured the foundation to enable Lincoln to control the foundation board of trustees and oversee the art collection.

Julian Bond, years later, was a vocal opponent of the relocation of the Barnes private art collection from Merion to Center City. He was featured in the 2009 documentary The Art of the Steal about breaking Barnes' will and an alleged "heist" to move the art.

Then-Gov. Ed Rendell brokered a settlement between the Barnes Foundation and Lincoln so the collection could be relocated to attract more paying visitors and ensure the long-term financial viability.

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