WASHINGTON: Pioneering US civil rights activist Julian Bond, who once chaired the board of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), has died. He was 75.

Bond died late Saturday in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, the Southern Poverty Law Center said in a statement.

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