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Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator, [1] and politician.A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, [2] the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives, [3] [4] and one of the first two African Americans elected to the U.S. House ...
Barbara Jordan (born 1949) is an American poet and academic. She is a professor of English at University of Rochester , and Plutzik Memorial Series director. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her work has appeared in Paris Review , [ 3 ] Sulfur , The Atlantic , The New Yorker , [ 4 ] Harvard Review .
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Barbara Jordan was a woman of many firsts in her career. In her relatively short time in Congress and the Texas State Senate, she left an immeasurable impact. Bridges: Texan Barbara Jordan was ...
Madison Square Garden was the site of the 1976 Democratic National Convention Barbara Jordan delivering the keynote address on the first day of the convention Michael Dukakis speaks on the second day of the convention Coretta Scott King (the widow of Martin Luther King Jr.) attending the second day of the convention Cesar Chavez nominating Jerry Brown during the presidential roll call vote on ...
The trailblazing lawmaker gets the honor decades after her death: The Texas Capitol Complex now has named a building after The post Building honoring Barbara Jordan makes history appeared first on ...
On April 24, 2009, a Barbara Jordan statue was unveiled at the University of Texas at Austin, a university at which Jordan taught. It is the first female statue on campus, besides the statue of the mythical Diana, and was paid for with student fees with the support of the University Board of Regents who approved the fee increase for the statue.
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