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Make it plain : standing up and speaking out
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Make it plain : standing up and speaking out

Author: Vernon E Jordan; Lee A Daniels
Publisher: New York : PublicAffairs, ©2008.
Edition/Format: Book : Biography : English : 1st ed
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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  Read more...
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Named Person: Vernon E Jordan; Vernon E Jordan
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Vernon E Jordan; Lee A Daniels
ISBN: 9781586482985 158648298X
OCLC Number: 191926284
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xxiv, 239 p. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. ; with Lee A. Daniels.
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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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