Julian Bond, 70, one of America's most prominent civil rights figures, visited the B.B. King Museum in Indianola Tuesday. He was helping lead a 40-person tour group from the University of Virginia on a four-state Civil Rights tour. Bond is a professor of history at the university. He was a founder of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s and served in the Georgia General Assembly for 20 years. He was chairman of the board of the NAACP from 1988 to 2010.

"The B.B. King Museum is fabulous," said Bond as he exited with his group. "We've been to seven museums in the last two days, and this one is the best. Just sensational, first-class."

The group went to Indianola's Club Ebony for an hour of socializing before leaving town. Organized through the University of Virginia School of Continuing and Professional Studies, the tour began in Memphis on Mar. 13 and then went to Little Rock before coming to the Delta. The tour concludes in New Orleans on Mar. 19.