article via jbhe.com
The Mauer School of Law at Indiana University in Bloomington has entered into a partnership with the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, to create the Julian Bond Law Scholars program. Bond, the noted civil rights leader, legislator, NAACP chair, and long-time faculty member at the University of Virginia who died in 2015, was the co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Each year the program will provide one Julian Bond Law Scholar with a scholarship equal to a minimum of 50 percent and up to a maximum of 100 percent of tuition. In addition, the scholarship recipients will be offered a summer externship upon completion of their first year of law school, with a $4,000 stipend to cover living expenses; and a research assistantship during their second or third year with a law school faculty member.
To read more, go to: New Scholarship Program at Indiana University School of Law Honors Julian Bond : The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education
Civil Rights Icon Julian Bond Honored with New Scholarship Program at Indiana University School of Law
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What a wonderful way to honor a wonderful man for generations to come. I remember first seeing him on the floor of the Democratic convention way back in 1968, that infamous convention. I believe it was Dan Rather who caught a few words with him on the floor in the cacophony and near chaos that swept the hall. What a handsome, smart young man he was. Watching his enduring career, despite all the odds through the decades, was a pleasure. We lost him far too soon. I’ve always wondered what he thought of Shirley Chisholm and her courageous bid for the presidency in the 70s.