Make It Plain : Standing up and Speaking Out
by Jordan, Vernon E., Jr.Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-11-03
Publisher(s): Perseus Books Group
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Summary
I was invited to give the Emancipation Proclamation Day Speech on New Year's Day to the Telfair County (Georgia) NAACP by its president, Alex Horne. I knew that Emancipation Proclamation Day programs in Atlanta were a very big deal. I wanted to do my best for Alex Horne, who also happened to be the foreman of Herman Talmadge's farm in McRae, Georgia, about three hours' drive south of Atlanta.
Author Biography
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. is a senior managing director of Lazard Frères & Co., LLC in New York. He was previously president and chief executive officer of the National Urban League, executive director of the United Negro College Fund, Inc., and director of the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional Council. He served as chairman of the Clinton Presidential Transition Team in 1992 and is senior counsel at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. ix |
| Urban League Beginnings, 1971 | p. 1 |
| New Ideas for the New South, 1976 | p. 27 |
| Battling the Callousness of Political Reality, 1977 | p. 45 |
| Declaring Our Interdependence, 1979 | p. 69 |
| Civil Rights: Past Gains, Present Uncertainty, 1981 | p. 85 |
| Our Children, Our Peers, 1981 | p. 109 |
| Bad Fix in America: The Reagan Years, 1983 | p. 117 |
| A Year of Cascading Change, 1989 | p. 149 |
| A Powerful Voice: Not Stilled, Still Heard, 1993 | p. 171 |
| Entering the Third Millennium, 2001 | p. 183 |
| A True Alfalfan at Heart, 2004 | p. 199 |
| Praising the Lord and the Legacy, 2008 | p. 205 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 223 |
| Index | p. 225 |
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