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" Make it plain : "
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. ; with Lee A. Daniels.
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BL
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1016982
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b771352
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Jordan, Vernon E., (Vernon Eulion),1935-
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Make it plain : : standing up and speaking out /\ Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. ; with Lee A. Daniels.
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1st ed.
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New York :: PublicAffairs,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (xxiv, 239 pages)
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0786726369
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158648298X
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9781586482985
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9781586487751
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| Contents
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Urban League beginnings, 1971 -- New ideas for the New South, 1976 -- Battling the callousness of political reality, 1977 -- Declaring our independence, 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.
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Black Americans have always relied on the oral tradition--storytelling, preaching, and speechmaking--to assert their rights and preserve and pass on their history and culture. In the pulpit, courtroom, or cotton field, they have understood the power of words, distinctively delivered, to educate and inspire. Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., one of the nation's finest speakers, imbibed this tradition as a young man and has given it his own unique inflection from his work on the civil rights front lines, to the National Urban League, to positions of influence at the highest level of business and politics. A friend and confidant to presidents, Jordan has never forgotten the men and women whose oratorical skill in service to social justice deeply influenced him. Their examples and voices, reflected in Vernon's own, make this book both a history and an embodiment of black speech at its finest.--From publisher description.
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Jordan, Vernon E., (Vernon Eulion),1935-
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Jordan, Vernon E., (Vernon Eulion),1935-Oratory.
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Jordan, Vernon E., (Vernon Eulion),1935-
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National Urban League
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National Urban League.
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African American lawyers, Biography.
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African American orators-- History.
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African American political activists, Biography.
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African Americans, Biography.
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African Americans-- Civil rights-- History-- 20th century.
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Civil rights movements-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Public speaking-- Political aspects-- United States.
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African American lawyers.
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African American orators.
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African American political activists.
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African Americans-- Civil rights.
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African Americans.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Political.
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Civil rights movements.
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Oratory.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom Security-- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom Security-- Human Rights.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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323.092B
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E185.97.J78A3 2008eb
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Daniels, Lee A.
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