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18 de ene. de 1996 · Barbara Jordan, the black Congresswoman and scholar who stirred the nation with her Churchillian denunciations of the Watergate abuses of President Richard M. Nixon, died today in her home state ...
22 de dic. de 2023 · In this historic and trailblazing keynote speech, Barbara Jordan delivers an electrifying address at the Democratic National Convention, becoming the first A...
Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator, and politician. A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
Barbara Charline Jordan was born in Houston, Texas, on February 21, 1936. She graduated from Texas Southern University in 1956 and from Boston University Law School in 1959, and then returned to ...
10 de jun. de 2021 · Barbara Jordan (1936-1996) was a lawyer, teacher, civil rights leader, lawmaker, and first LGBTQ+ woman in Congress. Born in Houston, in Texas’s historically Black Fifth Ward, Jordan was the great-granddaughter of Edward Patton, one of the last African Americans to serve in the Texas House of Representatives before Jim Crow re-disenfranchised African American Texans in the 1880s.
Thank you for your interest in the Barbara Jordan Freedom Foundation and our commitment to fighting injustice. For more information about getting involved or answering questions, please contact us. Barbara Jordan Freedom Foundation c/o William B. Hilgers 301 Congress Avenue, Suite 520 Austin, Texas 78701. Phone: 512-476-4716 Fax: 512-322-2010
8 de may. de 2010 · BARBARA JORDAN:"We are one, we Americans, we're one, and we reject any intruder who seeks to divide us on the basis of race and color. We honor cultural identity--we always have, we always will.
