عنوان

Make it plain :

(Number (ISBN

0786726369

(Number (ISBN

9780786726363

Erroneous ISBN

158648298X

Erroneous ISBN

9781586482985

Erroneous ISBN

9781586487751

Number

b771352

Title Proper

Make it plain :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

standing up and speaking out /

First Statement of Responsibility

Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. ; with Lee A. Daniels.

Edition Statement

1st ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

PublicAffairs,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xxiv, 239 pages)

Text of Note

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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Text of Note

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.

Title

Make it plain.

International Standard Book Number

158648298X

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

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

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

National Urban League

National Urban League.

African American lawyers, Biography.

African American orators-- History.

African American political activists, Biography.

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

African Americans, Biography.

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

Public speaking-- Political aspects-- United States.

African American lawyers.

African American orators.

African American political activists.

African Americans-- Civil rights.

African Americans.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Political.

Civil rights movements.

Oratory.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom & Security-- Civil Rights.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Political Freedom & Security-- Human Rights.

United States.

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BIO-- 010000

POL-- 004000

POL-- 035010

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

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

Daniels, Lee A.

Date of Transaction

20201206172114.0

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pn

Electronic name

[Book]

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