Frederick E. Jordan's book The Lynching of the American Dream is a timely book dealing with the issues of deceptive wording of legislation and ballot measures, the need for more minorities to vote
and asks who will neutralize demagogue Ward Connerly.

Jordan, the president of F.E. Jordan Associates, Inc., a consulting, engineering, planning, architectural, environmental and construction management firm headquartered in San Francisco, is also founder of the California Business Council for Equal Opportunity. This coalition of more than 80 organizations, defended affirmative action against 12 California legislative bills and Proposition 209, known as the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI). Prop 209 was passed by California voters November 1996, 14 months after the UC Regents voted 14-10 to abolish affirmative action programs in admissions and contracting.

NAACP President Kwesi Mfume with his coalition of elected officials, labor leaders and women's rights activists demonstrated in Florida but did not succeed in keeping Florida from facing the same attacks as California.

It was not long after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act that President Lyndon Baines Johnson said, "A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years, must now do something special for the Negro." Jordan's Lynching of the American Dream says Dr. Martin Luther King advanced civil rights implementation through victories won by marches, sit-ins, and passionate speeches that moved the consciousness of the American public. The Civil Rights Act and Affirmative Action were the Movements' most important gains. All of these gains came from those who suffered beatings, mass arrests and even murder.
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