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]