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Today in Peace and Justice history on January 9, 1967
Julian Bond, elected more than a year before, was finally sworn in as a member of the Georgia House of Representatives. The legislature had refused to allow him to take his seat because of his opposition to the Vietnam War . . . . Bond had been the director of SNCC. http://bit.ly/ZH3toQ