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Make it plain : standing up and speaking out / Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. ; with Lee A. Daniels.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jordan, Vernon E. (Vernon Eulion), Jr., 1935-2021.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public speaking--Political aspects--United States.
- Public speaking.
- African American orators--History.
- African American orators.
- African Americans--Biography.
- African Americans.
- African American political activists--Biography.
- African American political activists.
- African American lawyers--Biography.
- African American lawyers.
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- National Urban League--Biography.
- National Urban League.
- Jordan, Vernon E. (Vernon Eulion), Jr., 1935-2021.
- Jordan, Vernon E.
- Jordan, Vernon E. (Vernon Eulion), Jr., 1935-2021--Oratory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : PublicAffairs, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The long and storied career of Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. one of the nation's finest speakers, has carried him from work on the civil rights front lines in the South to the National Urban League to positions of influence at the highest level of business and politics. A friend and confidant to presidents, Vernon Jordan has never forgotten the men and women, from Wiley Branton to Martin Luther King, from Fannie Lou Hamer to Whitney Young to Primus King, whose oratorical skill in service to social justice deeply influenced him. Their examples, and voices, mixed with Vernon's own make this book both a
- Contents:
- ""CONTENTS""; ""Introduction ix""; ""Urban League Beginnings, 1971 1 ""; ""New Ideas for the New South, 1976 27 ""; ""Battling the Callousness of Political Reality, 1977 45 ""; ""Declaring Our Interdependence, 1979 69 ""; ""Civil Rights: Past Gains, Present Uncertainty, 1981 85 ""; ""Our Children, Our Peers, 1981 109 ""; ""Bad Fix in America: The Reagan Years, 1983 117 ""; ""A Year of Cascading Change, 1989 149 ""; ""A Powerful Voice: Not Stilled, Still Heard, 1993 171 ""; ""Entering the Third Millennium, 2001 183 ""; ""A True Alfalfan at Heart, 2004 199 ""
- ""Praising the Lord and the Legacy, 2008 205 """"Acknowledgments 223 ""; ""Index 225 ""
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-44979-6
- 9786612449796
- 0-7867-2636-9
- OCLC:
- 299126091
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