Vernon Jordan Make it Plain (2020)

From filmmaker Dawn Porter who earlier this year directed John Lewis Good Trouble the film explores the remarkable journey of Jordan from modest Southern origins to national renown as a pioneering attorney businessman civil rights leader and as a fixture could one also say a fixer on the DC scene Jordans story is told principally through a chronological narration of his life and accomplishment most of it taken from recent 2019 interviews with and narration by Jordan himself His early life in Atlanta is limned where Jordan describes the treasured influence of his mother Mary and his early academic successes including a law degree from Howard University His activities in the civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s are highlighted culminating in his tenyear tenure as director of the Urban League