Word: sviridoff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...battering ram. He was a young (25) law clerk named Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. Since then Jordan has moderated his tactics, but he has kept on pushing just as forcefully for black rights and equal opportunity. At the same time, he has become, in the words of Mitchell Sviridoff, a vice president of the Ford Foundation, "one of the great unifying forces in the country between the black and white communities," and a man who has shown himself to be as skillful in the boardrooms of New York City as he was on the streets of his native Atlanta...