Anita Lyons Bond

Anita Lyons Bond is an American civil rights activist and academic, who became the first black woman to graduate with honors from Saint Louis University.[1][2]

Bond was an advocate for education, equality, and civil rights. She was a community leader and was elected in 1974 as the president of the St. Louis Board of Education. She has lectured at many universities on Black Studies.[3] She has achieved national attention for her courses in speech correction and her strong advocacy of equal human rights.[4] In 2015, she was awarded an honorary PhD in humanities by St Louis University.[1] She is a member of The Links.[5]: 108 

  1. ^ a b "Anita Lyons Bond awarded honorary PhD by alma mater SLU". The St Louis American. July 8, 2015. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  2. ^ Company, Johnson Publishing (1954-07-15). Jet. Johnson Publishing Company. {{cite book}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  3. ^ "Bond, Anita Lyons Search Aid" (PDF). Missouri State History Society. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  4. ^ "Les Bond and Anita Bond". St Louis Post Dispatch. March 26, 2013. Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  5. ^ Graham, Lawrence Otis (2014). Our kind of people. [Place of publication not identified]: HarperCollins e-Books. ISBN 978-0-06-187081-1. OCLC 877899803.