Who is Julian Bond and Why is he a Civil Rights Icon? Julian Bond died this Saturday at the age of 75. He was hailed as an Icon of the Civil rights movement. For many of my students and millennials, the word icon is used frequently and assigned without merit. Also often the phrases and words Civil Rights movement and Civil rights icon provokes black and white images, Martin Luther King Jr, people marching and an era long, long ago. Our Civil Rights leaders are important and we need to understand why. So who is Julian Bond and Why is he a Civil Rights Icon? And most important why is he important and how did he make a difference? 1. Julian Bond was one of the founders of SNCC, The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. SNCC was one of the most important organizations of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. SNCC played a major role in the sit-ins and freedom rides , a leading role in the 1963 March on Washing...