BY WALTER OPINDE On this day 15th August, 1935, an African-American civil rights leader, the executive director of the National Urban League from 1972 to 1982, and one of the few African-American partners in a major law firm in the U.S., Vernon E. Jordan, was born in Atlanta, Georgia. His father was a mail clerk […]
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