That year he resigned from the National Urban League to take a position as legal counsel with the Washington, D.C., office of the Dallas law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. Read full biography of Vernon Jordan →
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Terrorism is not new to black people.
September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
The last job I applied for was to be a bus driver for the Chicago Transit Authority in 1957.
You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.
But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
That year he resigned from the National Urban League to take a position as legal counsel with the Washington, D.C., office of the Dallas law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld.