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J. Max Bond Jr. was the most influential black architect in New York and one of a few black architects of national prominence. Bond was the partner in the firm Davis Brody Bond Aedas in charge of the museum portion of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center. His family included prominent 20th-century educator Horace Mann Bond and civil-rights leader Julian Bond.