1. National Urban League-Eleanor Holmes Norton (HM)- Chair, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, at National Urban League - Conference in Chicago Item Format: Audio Date: 07/25/1979 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ...> Thank you very much for that very generous introduction, Chair Coy Eklund. President Vernon Jordan...
2. Hon. Andrew Young at Congressional Black Caucus: Side 2 Item Format: Audio Date: 09/30/1980 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Subject(s): Andrew Young and Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... I certainly, as a co-Chair of the Foreign Affairs, Brain Trust with the Congressional Black Caucus...
3. Vernon Jarrett Audio, Unknown Item Format: Audio Date: 2001 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ...... Dear John, I want to thank you for agreeing to serve as an honorary co-chair for our event, "An Evening...
4. Vernon Jarrett Audio, Unknown Item Format: Audio Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... Lee Yara is co-chair of the Ex-offender and Reentry Subcommittee and chair of the Committee on Housing...
5. Vernon Jarrett (HM) Interviews Mayor John Ford of Tuskegee Item Format: Audio Date: 06/03/1978 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... Alabama are democratic. And that's our single political organization. Even though I chair the Alabama...
6. Frierson tape Re: radio; Vernon Jarrett's (HM) Phone Messages Item Format: Audio Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... absolutely wouldn't make her chair of any committee and only put her on one, but didn't even ask her. And...
7. Mrs. Coretta King by phone Item Format: Audio Date: 09/07/1978 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... particular bill. Yes, the, see I wear two hats in this regard as co-chair person of the Full...
8. Vernon Jarrett Audio, Unknown Item Format: Audio Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... citizens who just may happen to care to attend. At the meeting, Metcalfe will have an empty chair waiting...
9. NAACP Friday - Margaret Bush Wilson(HM)- William Item Format: Audio Date: 07/02/1976 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... director's chair until the St. Louis convention in July, 1977? That depends on the-- If they...
10. NAACP-Roy Wilkins Item Format: Audio Date: 07/19/1976 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... NAACP, the people don't know him. Never heard of him. Nobody knew her until she became board chair.
11. Atlanta - Apartheid: Side 1 Item Format: Audio Date: 01/16/1979 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Subject(s): Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... country currently holds the chair. And I very much welcome this opportunity to address this special...
12. Vernon Jarrett Audio, Unknown Item Format: Audio Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... that is not discriminating in its employment practices. Madam Chair, may I inquire?
13. Vernon Jarrett Audio, Unknown Item Format: Audio Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... sitting on the edge of their chair waiting to see what's gonna happen in Chicago. When you say we,
14. Vernon Jarrett (HM) Item Format: Audio Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... is gonna make a lot of people jump out of their chair, that I know, that apes, gorillas and those...
15. Ill. Education - Percy Sutton Speech Item Format: Audio Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ...) Congratulations Chair. Anybody that wishes to speak should speak. (speaker is off mic) not to recognize anyone who...
16. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 70th Convention, Louisville - Final Night - Ben Hooks(HM) - Speach Item Format: Audio Date: 06/29/1979 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ..., Margaret. And let's give our board chair person a great big hand for the job she's done. (crowd clapping...
17. Ivan Van Sertima, Author "They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America" Item Format: Audio Date: 09/15/1977 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... Chicago. Then he holds a distinguished chair there now. Nine books. Does he still teach at the U...
18. Republicans and Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. (HM) Item Format: Audio Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... easy chair, watching the boob tube, drinking beer, or out somewhere blowing a joint, keep one thing in...
19. PUSH-Operation People United to Serve Humanity (PUSH) - Saturday before special primary election Item Format: Audio Date: 04/16/1977 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Subject(s): Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Transcript Excerpt: ... that chair. That alone ought to make people want to get out and support this qualified man who has a...
20. CBC- Black Caucus Dinner - Rep Chas. Rangel(HM); C. Cecil Dennis, foreign ministry, Liberia; Rep. Louis Stokes(HM) Awards Item Format: Audio Date: 09/27/1975 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Subject(s): The Honorable Charles B. Rangel and The Honorable Louis Stokes Transcript Excerpt: ... to acknowledge the work first of the co-chair persons of our fifth annual dinner, Mr. Ralph Weller...
21. PUSH=Operation People United to Serve Humanity (PUSH) Item Format: Audio Date: 04/30/1977 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Subject(s): Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Transcript Excerpt: ... Grayson. Yeah, give it to her, Sandy Grayson. Sandy's one of the co-chair persons for our Family Affair...
22. William Coleman (HM), Sec' of Transportation; Mayor Maynard Jackson of Atlanta (1st part important) Item Format: Audio Date: 12/12/1975 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Subject(s): William T. Coleman, Jr. Transcript Excerpt: ... of the City of Detroit. That I was chosen to chair this particular panel because as Mayor of Detroit...
23. Charlene Drew Jarvis, (HM) Wash. D.C., City council Member on Garcia-Kemp Enterprise Zone Bill (284) Item Format: Audio Date: 02/12/1981 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Subject(s): Charlene Drew Jarvis Transcript Excerpt: ... of the things that I am going to, as committee chair, and with the help of my committee, be looking...
24. NAACP-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Convention Final Night at St. Louis. Ben Hooks (HM)Speech. Item Format: Audio Date: 08/01/1977 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... do that tonight. (audience laughs) Just one or two things to our distinguished chair person, Mrs...
25. Vernon Jarrett (HM) Speech at 1982 Jack and Jill Father-Child Lunch Item Format: Audio Date: 1982 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... a lawyer." He says, "Well, you gonna get somebody put in the electric chair. (audience laughs) If...
26. Black Academy of Arts and Letters - Closing Session - Poussaint (HM), Doris Saunders, Etta Moten (HM) Item Format: Audio Date: 05/28/1972 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: .... We want a sort of rotating chair and arts and letters at the black colleges and universities of this...
27. PUSH-Operation People United to Serve Humanity (PUSH) Item Format: Audio Date: 08/23/1975 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Subject(s): Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Transcript Excerpt: ... and a soft rug and a swivelback chair to impress some of us. And we got an agenda for him and our...
28. Continued - Mrs. Charlotte B. Greenup, 93 years old of Clinton, Louisiana at 432 E. 46th Street, Chicago Item Format: Audio Date: 10/15/1974 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... I'm gonna tell you about Oscar right now. He left chair one dreary, cold Sunday evening. And there...
29. Jane Byrne and Wallace Johnson at "We Can" Debate Item Format: Audio Date: 03/22/1979 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ..., the lady sat in the balcony one day came down to say to me that you've been sitting in this chair here...
30. Vernon Jarrett (HM) and Carol Moseley Braun (HM) Item Format: Audio Date: 05/05/1979 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ..., I thought, this contract bill, I could have very well gotten up out of my chair and gone around and...
31. NABJ-Vernon Jarrett (HM)on the importance of the Black press both working for black or white publications Item Format: Audio Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... white person and go to the electric chair. But I saw out my high school window, a black man, stand on a...
32. Live Item Format: Audio Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: .... (applause) And Margaret is on to, to chair the closing session. And I got to thinking about that. I said, "I...
33. CBC on Full Employment (Reel 4) Item Format: Audio Date: 05/20/1975 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... ->Madam Chair, I answer to any of my three names. It's quite all right. Distinguished members of the...
34. THM: Meet the HistoryMakers - A Day of Education - WVON Cliff Kelly Item Format: Audio Date: 2006 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... chair the Cook County Construction Committee. She also brought in $5 million in funding for a woman...
35. Investigative Reports check speech by A.J. Cooper(HM), Mayor of Prichard, Alabama Near end Item Format: Audio Date: 12/13/1975 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... co-chair person of the plenary session with myself. Joanne Collins, 3rd District at large
36. NABJ-Washington, D.C. Black Journalist Luncheon - Vernon Jarrett,(HM) Hatcher(HM), Basil Paterson (HM) Item Format: Audio Date: 10/13/1975 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Subject(s): The Honorable Basil Paterson Transcript Excerpt: ... the part of the Republican candidate to buy black support. And I chair that cause I think unless...
37. NAACP ACT-SO-Denver Seminar (Denver Hilton Hotel - Dillon Room) Post-Mortem on 4th Olympics - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Item Format: Audio Date: 07/01/1981 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... better get you a chair. So you may have to answer questions too. Go right ahead. Sorry. I want...
38. NAACP-ACT-SO-Denver Seminar (Denver Hilton Hotel - Dillon Room) Post-Mortem on 4th Olympics - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Item Format: Audio Date: 07/02/1981 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ..., we'll be here all day and come up with a newer motion? Cough a question. Mr. Chair...