Morehouse College and the Atlanta University Center Consortium of historically black colleges and universities will hold a memorial service for civil rights legend Julian Bond on Oct. 26.

Bond, a 1971 Morehouse graduate, died Aug. 15, after a short illness and complications from vascular disease.

The longtime leader of the NAACP was 75.

The citywide service will be held at 6 p.m. the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel on Morehouse’s college. The service is open to the public.

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Students line up after school for school buses at Sequoyah Middle School in Doraville on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. The school’s principal told teachers not to talk to students about ICE, and teachers and activists are pushing back. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)

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Students line up after school for school buses at Sequoyah Middle School in Doraville on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. The school’s principal told teachers not to talk to students about ICE, and teachers and activists are pushing back. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)

Credit: arvin.temkar@ajc.com