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The New York Times: Julian Bond, Former N.A.A.C.P. Chairman and Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 75

By Roy Reed, Aug. 16, 2015, Nytimes.com

Julian Bond, a charismatic figure of the 1960s civil rights movement, a lightning rod of the anti-Vietnam War campaign and a lifelong champion of equal rights for minorities, notably as chairman of the N.A.A.C.P., died on Saturday night in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. He was 75.

He died after a brief illness, the Southern Poverty Law Center said in a statement Sunday morning.

Mr. Bond was one of the original leaders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee while he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta. He was the committee’s communications director for five years and deftly guided the national news media toward stories of violence and discrimination as the committee challenged legal segregation in the South’s public facilities.

He gradually moved from the militancy of the student group to the top leadership of the establishmentarian N.A.A.C.P. Along the way, Mr. Bond was a writer, poet, television commentator, lecturer and college teacher, and a persistent opponent of the stubborn remnants of white supremacy.

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Fox News: Obama Makes 1st Visit By Sitting President To Federal Prison

By Fox News, Jul. 16, 2015

From the White House to the big house, President Obama made an unprecedented presidential visit to a federal prison Thursday as part of his push for changes to the criminal justice system.

The president, after issuing dozens of commutations and tackling the subject during an NAACP address, arrived Thursday at El Reno Federal Correctional Institution, a medium-security prison for male offenders near Oklahoma City.

He'll meet separately Thursday with law enforcement officials and nonviolent drug offender doing time there.

According to the White House, Obama will be the first sitting president to see the inside of a federal prison. Despite potential security concerns, Danny Spriggs, a former deputy director of the U.S. Secret Service, told the Associated Press the controlled environment of a prison is better than many public venues where presidents normally appear.

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