Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. (1935–2021)

Great read. Follows the amazing American success story of the career of Vernon Jordan, from his family influences as a black child of the south, to driving a white Atlanta banker around as a summer job while attending DePauw University, to his first real job as a law clerk working on civil rights cases, to serving as the Georgia field director for the NAACP, to heading the United Negro College Fund and then the Urban League, to fully joining in the upper echelons of corporate America. It is a forthright telling of his story, how his family and experiences growing up in a segregated south shaped him and set him on the path to success.… (more)