Dear Editor,
Words cannot describe my personal feeling of loss on being advised of the death of my friend and great champion of civil rights in the USA. I refer to that great Atlanta legislator, Julian Bond.
From the late 1960s, when we first met through my brother Dennis, we shared many visions and ideas, and I had the honour of bringing him to Jamaica during that period of turmoil and intense championing of the rights of negroes in the USA.
How vividly I still recall his first visit, which opened up the blossoming of what I still call my Atlanta connection and experiences.
How I witnessed first-hand, with my brother Dennis, the unfolding of the battle led by Dr Martin Luther King Jr, and all the later years of growth and development of the Atlanta outreach, much of which he continued in his chairmanship of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Rest well, my friend, as I continue to cherish the memories of our time together, and hopefully the legacies yet to bloom in the black man's fight for equal rights and justice.
Mike Henry, MP, CD
Clarendon Central
Rest well, Julian Bond
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Words cannot describe my personal feeling of loss on being advised of the death of my friend and great champion of civil rights in the USA. I refer to that great Atlanta legislator, Julian Bond.
From the late 1960s, when we first met through my brother Dennis, we shared many visions and ideas, and I had the honour of bringing him to Jamaica during that period of turmoil and intense championing of the rights of negroes in the USA.
How vividly I still recall his first visit, which opened up the blossoming of what I still call my Atlanta connection and experiences.
How I witnessed first-hand, with my brother Dennis, the unfolding of the battle led by Dr Martin Luther King Jr, and all the later years of growth and development of the Atlanta outreach, much of which he continued in his chairmanship of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Rest well, my friend, as I continue to cherish the memories of our time together, and hopefully the legacies yet to bloom in the black man's fight for equal rights and justice.
Mike Henry, MP, CD
Clarendon Central
Rest well, Julian Bond
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