Julian Bond: Black rebel.

In many ways Julian Bond was a true Renaissance man: poet, politician, activist, rebel and pacifist. There were many "firsts" in his life: first elected legislator to the Georgia State Legislature to be denied his rightful place because of his previous anti-war position; led the Georgia delegation, and challenged that group's conservative views to the 1968 Democratic Convention; at the 1968 Democratic Convention he became the first black person nominated to be Vice President. In 1974, he was elected to the Georgia Senate.