Vernon Can Read! A Memoir

Jordan, Vernon E., Jr.; Gordon-Reed, Annette; Annette Gordon-Reed

ISBN 10: 189162069X / ISBN 13: 9781891620690

Published by PublicAffairs, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Vernon Can Read! A Memoir
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 189162069X
• ISBN 13: 9781891620690
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

The civil rights leader, attorney, and former head of the National Urban League recounts his boyhood in segregated Atlanta, his career, and the social changes he helped to bring about.

About the Author

Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., one of the major civil rights figures in American history, is now a senior managing director of the investment firm Lazard Frères & Co. Annette Gordon-Reed is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School and is a professor at New York Law School. She is the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. She lives in New York City.