October 1, 2009 - NAACP chairman Julian Bond reflects on the state of the civil rights movement now that a black man is president of the United States. In 1968, Julian Bond, now chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was the first African-American man to be nominated by a major party as a candidate for the vice presidency.
May 1, 2004 - American RadioWorks presents “Thurgood Marshall Before the Court,” a documentary on the story of Thurgood Marshall's remarkable career before he joined the Supreme Court, when he was the nation's leading civil rights lawyer.
February 14, 2000 - In this special extended edition of Midday, Walter Mondale, former vice-president, speaks at the inaugural program of 50 Years: The Mondale Lectures on Public Service. Mondale’s address was titled, "Atlantic City Revisited: Mississippi Freedom Democrats and the Integration of the Democratic Party,."
July 4, 1996 - Midday rebroadcasts the award-winning MPR documentary about "Freedom Summer" in Mississippi in 1964. It's called "O Freedom Over Me."
June 20, 1994 - Documentary is a look at Freedom Summer, 1964.
February 1, 1990 - Julian Bond, civil rights activist and former Georgia state senator, speaking at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. Bond’s address was titled, "Crisis in Black America: Past, Present and Future." After speech, Bond answered audience questions. Bond gained national attention when he was nominated for vice president at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. He was the first Black to have his name placed in nomination at a major political party convention, but he withdrew his name, because at age 28 he was too young to serve. While a student at Morehouse College in the 1960s, he was one of the founders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, active in voter registration drives in the rural south, and an early opponent of the Vietnam War.
October 31, 1975 - Julian Bond, Georgia politician, talks about his political beliefs. Julian Bond talks about concessions that adherents to the new politics might demand from candidates in 1976. Included: Income and wealth redistribution with a tax restructure to reduce disparity between the needy and the greedy. Elimination of poverty through program of real employment. Education to dignify vocational aa well as academic training. Free adequate health care for each American financed through the national treasury and not through profit-making insurance companies. Control of monopolies. Municipal ownership of vital services. Talks about Americans as two-party people, variations in political parties and the role of independent voters. He speaks at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN.
April 28, 1974 - Excerpt of Julian Bond speaking at Macalester College in St. Paul. He comments on the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) and the kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst.