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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 April 2, 1957) is an American former professional tennis player who won the 1979 Australian Open singles title. Jordan also won the mixed doubles title at the 1983 French Open with Eliot Teltscher. Jordan was a three-time All-American at Stanford University, where she obtained
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 ...
Famed Texas Senator Barbara Jordan has been honored with a memorial stretch of highway near Texas State University. The Barbara The post Barbara Jordan Memorial Parkway unveiled in Texas appeared ...
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.
Barbara Jordan: Location: Austin, Texas, United States Bruce Wolfe's statue of Barbara Jordan on the ...
Bruce Wolfe's bronze statue of Barbara Jordan at the Austin–Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas, was erected in 2002. See also. Texas portal; Visual arts portal; 2002 in art; References