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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 ...
1920 – DNC Chair Homer Cummings of Connecticut [18] 1924 – U.S. Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi [19] 1928 – Claude Bowers of New York [20] 1932 – U.S. Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky [21] 1936 – U.S. Senator Alben Barkley of Kentucky and U.S. Senator Joseph Robinson of Arkansas [22] 1940 – U.S. Representative William Bankhead ...
Jordan's 1976 Democratic National Convention keynote address, the first major convention keynote speech ever by a woman and the first by an African American, was listed as #5 in American Rhetoric's Top 100 Speeches of the 20th Century (listed by rank). [54] Jordan was a member of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from 1978 to 1980.
Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale at the Democratic National Convention, New York City. The 1976 Democratic National Convention was convened at Madison Square Garden in New York City. [7] Notably, Barbara Jordan became the first African-American woman to deliver the keynote address at a Democratic National Convention. With most contests in the ...
Jimmy Carter took full advantage of the enhanced primary system in 1976 and went all the way. ... to the crowd during the Democratic National Convention at Madison Square in New-York on August 13 ...
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Illinois delegates told The State Journal-Register on July 28, 2004, that Barack Obama's keynote address was "one of the most beautiful, inspiring speeches I've ever heard."
During Wednesday night’s DNC keynote speeches, Winfrey officially endorsed Kamala Harris for president, calling on independents and undecided voters to get on board with the historic moment in ...