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- Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs
- Title:
- Vernon Jordan, circa 1973
- Creator:
- Lewis, Boyd, 1944-
- Date of Original:
- 1973
- Subject:
- African Americans--1970-1980
Lawyers--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights leaders
Civil rights movements
Press conferences--1970-1980
National Urban League
Jordan, Vernon E. (Vernon Eulion), 1935-
Wade, Lyndon A.
WSB (Radio station : Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Vernon Jordan, Executive Director of the National Urban League, and Lyndon Wade, Director of the Atlanta Urban League, at a press conference in Atlanta Georgia.
Vernon Jordon (1935- ), a native of Atlanta, earned his law degree from Howard University in 1960 and subsequently worked at the law office of Donald L. Hollowell, a prominent civil rights attorney. Jordan later served as the director of the Southern Regional Council's Voter Education Project from 1965 to 1970. He then became executive director of the United Negro College Fund in New York. From 1971 to 1981, he served as executive director of the National Urban League. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 101.080.004
ahc101080004.jpg - Metadata URL:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/digital/collection/byd/id/218
- IIIF manifest:
- https://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/iiif/2/byd:218/manifest.json
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: MSS 602, Boyd Lewis Papers, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Extent:
- 35 mm black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Boyd Lewis Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights: