Vernon Jordan, the former National Urban League president and civil rights leader, has died at 85.
Vernon Jordan
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U of M’s Humphrey School honors longtime civil rights leader Josie Johnson
For decades, Josie Johnson has been one of Minnesota’s foremost leaders in civil rights activism. Now a new fellowship at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs has been named in her honor.
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Vernon Jordan: Civil Rights Movement was about ‘tearing down walls’
On January 19, the General Mills Foundation and the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) partnered once again to cohost the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Breakfast at the Minneapolis Convention Center.