Race and the economy

Vernon Jordan

By hiring more ethnic minority staff and doubling its spend on black media, advertising could improve the lot of black Americans.

Race and the economy

Vernon JordanPresident, National Urban League

There comes a time in the affairs of men and nations when it becomes appropriate to look back and take stock of where we've come from and where we are going. Now, in the midst of an economic depression and deteriorating race relations, is an apt time to take a brief look at the civil rights movement of the 1960s and relate some of the changes that have taken place within the black community. Those changes have been far-reaching, and they will affect the future course of this decade. They...

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