Born Horace Julian Bond in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1940, he moved to Pennsylvania with his family at the age of 5, when his father, Horace Bond, became the first African-American president of Lincoln University. When Julian was 17, the family returned to the South, where Horace worked as dean of education at Atlanta University. As a student at Morehouse College, Julian founded a literary magazine called The Pegasus, but his studies would soon take a backseat to his growing political activism.