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 

References
  1. "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.
  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.
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