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  • Still much work to be done for civil rights

    Merrill Shapiro|Nov 22, 2013

    “Blacks have known slavery and so have Jews,” Julian Bond reminded some 150 delegates at the annual meeting of the Southern Jewish Historical Society. “But we cannot build a common future on our common graves,” the co-founder of SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee told the crowd. Bond, who became the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center and served 20 years in the Georgia State legislature, was the keynote speaker at the Historical Society’s annual meeting in Birmingham, Alabama. The meeting location was chosen to h...