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Nov 12, 2008 vernon jordan, former head of the national urban league and the united negro college fund, discusses the power of the africanamerican oral tradition and his new book make it plain. Vernon jordan was a powerful civil rights leader with unprecedented access to america s business and government elite. Twitter while the mainstream media in the united states has long ago ceased to even attempt to conceal their overt bias for hillary clinton, the same media is in a meltdown of chernobylesque proportions regarding donald trumps off the record locker room back and forth with access hollywood reporter billy bush. In the 1960s, he entered the civil right s movement to fight for black equality. An american civil rights leader, vernon jordan born 1935 was executive director of the national urban league from 1972 to 1982 and later one of the few african american partners in a major law firm in the united states.

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Vernon jordan was a powerful civil rights leader with unprecedented access to americas business and government elite. Jordan even noted in his deposition during the senate impeachment trial that every year clinton has. Earlier in his career, he also practiced privately in arkansas and georgia. I picked up this copy about twenty years ago at talk given by vernon jordan. In the 1960s, he entered the civil rights movement to fight for black equality.

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