Vernon Jordan - Legacy and Honors

Legacy and Honors

  • Jordan is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
  • 1983, Barnard College awarded Jordan its highest honor, the Barnard Medal of Distinction.
  • 2001, he was awarded the Spingarn Medal by the NAACP for lifetime achievement.
  • 2001 – his memoir won the Best Nonfiction Book for 2001 from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. In 2002 it won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and a Trailblazer Award from the Metropolitan Black Bar Association.

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