Silvio Ottavio Conte was an American lawyer and politician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for 16 terms, representing the 1st congressional district of Massac
Horace Julian Bond was an American social activist, leader of the civil rights movement, politician, professor, and writer. While he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the
Silvio O. Conte
…representatives, Conte signed a telegram sent to Georgia governor Carl E. Sanders regarding the Georgia legislature's refusal to seat the recently elected Julian Bond in their state House of Representatives. This refusal, said the telegram, was "a dangerous attack on representative government. None of us agree with…
Bond in 2000
Bond in 1966
Bond being interviewed by WFSU-TV in 1978
(L-R) Bond with John Lewis, US Representative from Georgia, at the Civil Rights Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2014