Civil rights activist in the United States since the late 1950s.
His estimated net worth is $12 million.
One child, a daughter, Vickee Jordan Adams, by first wife, Shirley Yarbrough Jordan.
Assassin Joseph Paul Franklin was first acquitted on attempted murder charges of Jordan in 1982. In 1986, Franklin, after having been convicted of murder in another case, admitted to having committed the shooting of Vernon Jordan in 1980..
1957 graduate from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, USA, as the only black student in a class of 400 students.