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Mar 2, 2021 · WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vernon Jordan, who grew up in the segregated South to become an influential leader in the American civil rights movement, Washington politics and Wall Street, has died at age 85, his daughter said on Tuesday. Jordan, who in 1980 was badly wounded by a white supremacist sniper in Indiana, died on Monday night peacefully ...
Jul 4, 2021 · On election night, 1980, Vernon Jordan had watched the returns from his Fifth Avenue apartment. Ronald Reagan and his conservative coalition had swept the nation, winning the White House, flipping ...
Mar 9, 2021 · Jordan died on March 1, 2021, at age 85. Mr. Clinton, who gave the eulogy, said, "Vernon Jordan was a man worthy of our love and admiration because he was a man in full." Washington, D.C., Mayor ...
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Mar 2, 2021 · Vernon Jordan was an activist, he was a deep thinker & a mentor to many. He started his career fighting segregation & continued to pave the way forward for African Americans. Rest in power.
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Mar 2, 2021 · "Vernon Jordan was a giant in the civil rights community and in our nation overall," said Damon Hewitt, acting president and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
Mar 2, 2021 · Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr., was born in Atlanta on Aug. 15, 1935, the second of Vernon and Mary Belle Jordan’s three sons. Until Jordan was 13, the family lived in public housing. But he was ...
Mar 2, 2021 · Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. was born August 15, 1935, in Atlanta, Georgia. As a teenager, Jordan attended an overcrowded segregated high school. (The geometry textbook he used in 1951 had been used ...
