In the late 1990s, as a graduate student in history, I had the good fortune of serving as a teacher’s assistant to Julian Bond. Bond was a gentlemanly presence in the history department at the University of Virginia. He was also an excellent teacher, and the class he taught every semester on the history of the civil rights movement was always popular. So popular that he always had three TAs – many or most of the American history grad students served in that capacity at some point.
I happened to be assisting Bond (pictured in 2006) the year that an aide to Washington, D.C.’s mayor had gotten…
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