Make It Plain: Standing Up and Speaking Out

by Vernon E. Jordan Jr.

Book Overview

Black Americans have always relied on the oral tradition -- storytelling, preaching, and speechmaking -- to assert their rights and preserve and pass on their history and culture. In the pulpit,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158648298X
• ISBN13: 9781586482985
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Well-written and great oral history of civil rights movement

Item received on time and in new condition. Great concept for book: short explanation of speech circumstances followed by complete text of speech delivered by Mr. Jordan. Follows chronological history of civil rights from 1960's to 1980's. Very enlightening. Would buy again. A++.

Make It Plain

This is an excellent addition to my collection of historical books about this period in our history. This was my young adult period, so I have an active, personal account of things. His speeches give a deeper perspective of the times when taken with the other writings in my collection.