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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, the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives, [2] and one of the first two African Americans elected to the U.S. House from the ...
On January 22, 2018, the university published a new establishment Center for Justice Research (CJR) in the Barbara Jordan–Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs. The center is intended to create innovative solutions to criminal justice alteration and address challenges in America's criminal justice system.
Barbara Jordan. Location. Austin, Texas, United States. Coordinates. 30°17′14.9″N 97°44′26.2″W / 30.287472°N 97.740611°W / 30.287472; -97.740611. Bruce Wolfe 's statue of Barbara Jordan on the University of Texas at Austin campus was erected in 2009. [1][2]
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 ...
If victorious, Allred, a former NFL player turned attorney, would be etched in the history books, following in the footsteps of groundbreaking Black politicians from Texas like Barbara Jordan, the ...
The Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs, also referred to as BJMLSPA, is the public policy school within Texas Southern University (TSU) in Houston, Texas, United States. For students interested in formulating and shaping public policy, the School offers many opportunities for learning, research, professional development ...
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 ...
2016. (2016) Location. Austin, Texas, United States. Coordinates. 30°16′24″N 97°44′29″W / 30.2733°N 97.7415°W / 30.2733; -97.7415. The Texas African American History Memorial is an outdoor monument commemorating the impact of African Americans in Texas, installed on the Texas State Capitol grounds in Austin, Texas ...