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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 ...
Along with Barbara Jordan and Joe Lockridge, he was one of three African-American members elected in 1966, the first ones since 1896. [5] [6] Graves was a major force in the Civil Rights Movement during which he worked with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A businessman, he was an alumnus of Texas Southern University and Princeton University.
Edward A. "Ed" Patton (born c. 1859 – ? [1]) was an American educator, farmer and politician. A Republican who resided in Evergreen, he represented San Jacinto and Polk counties in the Texas House of Representatives during the Twenty-second Texas Legislature. [2] At the time of his election, he was the sole Black member of the legislature.
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
Leslie Allen Jordan (April 29, 1955 – October 24, 2022) was an American actor, comedian, writer, and singer. [1] His television roles include Beverley Leslie on Will & Grace (2001–2006 and 2017–2020), several characters on television in the American Horror Story franchise (2013–2019), Sid on The Cool Kids (2018–2019), Phil on Call Me Kat (2021–2022), and Lonnie Garr on Hearts Afire ...