Make It Plain Standing up and Speaking Out

Name: Make It Plain Standing up and Speaking Out
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ISBN: 9781586487751

ISBN-10: 1586487752

ISBN-13: 9781586487751

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Authors: Vernon Jordan, Lee A. Daniels

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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 history and an embodiment of black speech at its finest, full of emotion, controlled force,…

Book details

List price: $19.99
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 10/13/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 266
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.54" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.726
Language: English



Introduction


Urban League Beginnings, 1971


New Ideas for the New South, 1976


Battling the Callousness of Political Reality, 1977


Declaring Our Interdependence, 1979


Civil Rights: Past Gains, Present Uncertainty, 1981


Our Children, Our Peers, 1981


Bad Fix in America: The Reagan Years, 1983


A Year of Cascading Change, 1989


A Powerful Voice: Not Stilled, Still Heard, 1993


Entering the Third Millennium, 2001


A True Alfalfan at Heart, 2004


Praising the Lord and the Legacy, 2008


Acknowledgments


Index