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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
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Posted December 13, 2008
I purchased this book and I could not put it down. This is a great book and well worth every penny.
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Overview
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, righteous indignation, love of country, ...