1. Interview of Coretta Scott King and Silas Purnell: Side 2 Item Format: Audio Date: 01/17/1978 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Subject(s): Christine King Farris, Vernon Jarrett, Silas Purnell, and Berniece King Transcript Excerpt: ... best symbol. He's the best exponent disciple of Martin Luther king Jr. Andy lives what he preaches as...
2. 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: ... provided during his lifetime. Merv Daly has been a symbol of how you can fight your way up in politics. He...
3. Live Item Format: Audio Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... the symbol of a new mood, a weakening of the national will, a numbing of our political initiative, a...
4. NAACP-72nd National Association for the Advancement of Colored People - Annual Convention - Dr. Leon Sullivan Item Format: Audio Date: 06/29/1981 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... soon, America the most beautiful will be universally recognized for standing as a symbol to the world...
5. Alex Haley on Craftsmanship Item Format: Audio Date: 1980 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... of a challenge, as kind of an invitation and as kind of a symbol feeling for us to share this evening...
6. Vernon Jarrett Audio, Unknown Item Format: Audio Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... tradition. A symbol of Black determination, and accomplishment, and I feel deeply they must be preserved...
7. CBC-Congressional Black Caucus Dinner - President Jimmy Carter; Congressman Parren Mitchell (HM) Item Format: Audio Date: 09/24/1977 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Subject(s): The Honorable Parren J. Mitchell, III Transcript Excerpt: ... bitterness and anger. And I would pray that the leaders who are here a symbol of this country would plan and...
8. Vernon Jarrett Speech (HM) at Olive Harvey College Item Format: Audio Date: 01/14/1972 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... that Martin Luther Kings symbol taught me, was that we should not be too unhappy about starting small I...
9. 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: .... (audience applauding) And two, conventions like this don't just happen. There is one person who is a symbol...
10. Federal Judge Damon Keith (HM) presents Spingarn Medal to Rosa Parks; Kelly M. Alexander intros Vice President Walter F. Mondale Item Format: Audio Date: 06/26/1979 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... Townsman of Rosa Parks. She is a symbol for all of us, of social struggle of human dignity, of aspirations...
11. Vernon Jarrett Audio, Unknown Item Format: Audio Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... common goals of the entire community. It is unfortunate because each has become a symbol of a position...
12. Marvin Gaye: Pride and Joy (1st Hour) Item Format: Audio Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... crush on the sex symbol of Motown. I'm sure the memories that I have of Marvin are perhaps the...
13. Black Family - National Medical Association Item Format: Audio Date: 1972 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... goal of material possessions as a sign or symbol of success. These are program values under the old...
14. Jane Byrne and Wallace Johnson at "We Can" Debate Item Format: Audio Date: 03/22/1979 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... more than simply a symbol. I think the commissioner Partee, touched on it when he said that during the...
15. Barbara Sizemore (HM) Item Format: Audio Creator: Vernon Jarrett Subject(s): Barbara A. Sizemore Transcript Excerpt: ... the white woman, who has become the adorned symbol of femininity in American society, that this is...
16. "Should Blacks Vote?" YMCA Mosby Item Format: Audio Date: 1971 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... with naturals. That used to be a symbol of the new Black person. You can't go by symbolism and slogans...
17. Continued, Joe Louis Item Format: Audio Creator: Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... symbol of that which comes when you have the courage of your own conviction. Like some gay young...
18. 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: ... appreciate it today. I don't care who it is, whether you are black or white, if you propose to be a symbol of...
19. Interview of Charles Evers Item Format: Audio Date: 06/17/1973 Creator: Vernon Jarrett Subject(s): Charles Evers and Vernon Jarrett Transcript Excerpt: ... last deal. Do you see in the immediate future in Mississippi, a true symbolic national symbol...