Late civil rights leader Julian Bond’s D.C. home hits the market

The Friendship Heights home of the late civil rights leader Julian Bond and his widow, Pamela Sue Horowitz, has hit the market for $1.665 million.

The three-level, 3,900-square-foot colonial sits on a cul-de-sac at 5435 41st Place NW, a block south of the Chevy Chase Recreation Center and the District’s border with Montgomery County. It is listed by Liz Lavette Shorb of Washington Fine Properties.

Bond — an early leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee as a student at Atlanta’s Morehouse College, the first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a former NAACP chairman and a Georgia elected official who served in both chambers of the state legislature — died in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, in 2015 from complications of vascular disease. He was 75.

Horowitz, among the first attorneys hired by the SPLC, practiced law in D.C. for 30 years.

In addition to his civil rights accolades, Bond was writer, lecturer, presidential counselor and university professor,…

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