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Vernon Jordan

In the summers between his years at Depauw University, Vernon Jordan worked for a wealthy white man named Robert Maddox, truly a product of his generation, as a chauffeur and butler. While reading in Maddox’s library one afternoon, Maddox walked in and asked what Vernon was doing. When Vernon replied that he was reading, Maddox stated that he had never had any niggers that could read work for him. Vernon said that not only was he going to college, he was going to be a lawyer. Maddox, baffled replied “ni...

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