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Georgia Capitol: Elected Three Times

His voters kept sending him here. The House kept shutting the door.

Collection: Atlanta · USA · Open in OpenStreetMap

Georgia State Capitol, west side
Georgia State Capitol, west side · DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

Julian Bond was removed from the Georgia House before he was ever elected to it. As a student at Morehouse College, he and other Black classmates were escorted by Capitol police out of the whites-only gallery in this building. In June 1965 his Atlanta district elected him, by nearly five to one. Bond had helped found the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Days before he was due to take the oath, the committee came out against the Vietnam War and in sympathy with men who would not answer the draft.

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Georgia State Capitol, downtown Atlanta. The story works from the public grounds outside. If you want to go in, check visiting arrangements with the Capitol first.

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