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Whitney Young's Successor Shifts Focus to Politics
Vernon E. Jordan, named head of the National Urban League after Whitney Young's death, plans to push black political involvement. He aims to raise 10 million dollars for the United Negro College Fund and continues a voter-registration drive that boosted southern Black political power. Jordan, born in Atlanta in 1935, holds degrees from DePauw and Howard University Law, and has held NAACP posts and academic fellowships.
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