Wednesday, 03 Mar 2021 10:24 AM MYT
Vernon Jordan (left) seen here with former US president Barack Obama at Howard University in Washington May 7, 2016. ― Reuters file pic
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WASHINGTON, March 3 ― Vernon Jordan, who grew up in the segregated South to become an influential leader in the American civil rights movement, Washington politics and Wall Street, has died at age 85, his daughter said yesterday.
Jordan, who in 1980 was badly wounded by a white supremacist sniper in Indiana, died on Monday night peacefully and “surrounded by loved ones,” daughter Vickee Jordan said in a statement.