![Civil rights leader and former advisor to President Bill Clinton Vernon Jordan passes away.](https://www.gpb.org/sites/default/files/styles/flexheight/public/2021-03/vernon_jordan_lawrence_jackson.jpeg?itok=rBiTdZ96)
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In this Nov. 27, 2006 file photo, Vernon Jordan, a former adviser to President Clinton, walks outside the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. Jordan, who rose from humble beginnings in the segregated South to become a champion of civil rights before reinventing himself as a Washington insider and corporate influencer, died Monday, March 1, 2021, according to a statement from his daughter.
Credit: Lawrence Jackson/AP