Title

Vernon can read! : a memoir

Description

The civil rights leader, attorney, and former head of the National Urban League recounts his boyhood in segregated Atlanta, his career, and the social changes he helped to bring about.

Identifier

983045

189162069X

Creator

Jordan, Vernon E

Format

1st ed.

Contributor

Gordon-Reed, Annette

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

2001

Program air date: December 23, 2001

Publisher

Public Affairs

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Front and back end papers contain notes on Vernon Jordan's shooting in 1980, education, marriages, positions held, Urban League, and court cases. Underlining's/notes: race in the Reagan administration, relationships with the NAACP, Barry Goldwater, Jesse Jackson, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton.

Subject

"Jordan, Vernon E. (Vernon Eulion), 1935-"

"National Urban League--Biography."

"African Americans--Biography."

"African American political activists--Biography."

"African American lawyers--Biography."

"African American civil rights workers--Biography."

"African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century."

"Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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