( Sample Transcription )

About the Project:

Following the death of civil rights leader Julian H. Bond on August 15, 2015, the University of Virginia acquired the entirety of his papers and moved them to the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library for preservation. In an effort to make the papers accessible to the public, Professor Deborah McDowell, the Carter G. Woodson Institute, and the Center for Digital Editing collaborated beginning in 2017 to create a scholarly edition of his papers.

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