Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996

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Barbara Jordan (b. Feb. 21, 1936, Huston, TX–d. Jan. 17, 1996, Austin, TX) graduated magna cum laude from Texas Southern University in 1956 and attended Boston University School of Law, graduating in 1959. Before returning to Texas to practice law, she taught political science at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama for a year.

Jordan won a seat in the Texas Senate in 1966, becoming the first African-American and first black woman state senator. In 1972, she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as the first woman elected in her own right to represent Texas. She was a member of House Judiciary Committee and in 1974, Jordan made an influential televised speech before the House Judiciary Committee supporting the impeachment of President Richard Nixon. She gave speeches during the Democratic National Conventions of 1976 (as the first Black woman to do so) and in 1992. Jordan retired from politics in 1979 and was an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.

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referencedIn Barbara Jordan. Texas Woman's University Library, Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library
referencedIn UT Barbara Jordan Historical Essay Competition Archive 38058282. 96-111; 97-107; 98-133; 99-125; 2000-65; 2001-075; 2002-085; 2003-051; 2008-226; 2009-102; 2010-103; 2011-100; 2012-113., 1996- Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
referencedIn Commencement Programs and Records, 1873-2004 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
referencedIn Records, 1836-2003, (bulk 1985-2000) Texas State Archives
referencedIn Fagan Dickson papers MS 281, 1950-1978 Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University
referencedIn Seals, Woodrow, 1917-1990. Judge Woodrow Seals Papers, 1941-1990 [Part 2] Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Libary
referencedIn National Organization for Women. Records: Series I-XVI, 1961-1999 (inclusive). Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Robert N. Giaimo Papers., undated, 1956-1981. Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Center.
referencedIn Swanson, Dick L., 1935-. Swanson, Dick L., photographic archive, 1959-1994. University of Texas Libraries
referencedIn Dobbs, Jeannine. Class essays, 1977. Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Papers, 1927-1979 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Houston Post, Washington D.C. Bureau, Collection, 1963-1995 Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
referencedIn Audiotape collection of the National Women's Conference, 1977 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Sue Brandt McBee Collection of African American Culture AR. 2001. 020., 1980-2003., 1950-2003. Austin History Center , Austin Public Library, 810 Guadalupe Street, Austin, Texas, 78701.
referencedIn McNamee, Wally, 1932-2017. Wally McNamee Photographic Archive, ca. 1950-2017 Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
referencedIn Hearon, Shelby, 1931-. Papers, 1966-1996. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
referencedIn Edsel M. Cramer papers Archives of American Art
referencedIn UT Office of Community Relations, Division of Diversity and Community Engagement Records 2007-086; 2009-338; 2010-057., 1997-2009 Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
referencedIn Candidates for public office campaign materials, 1966-1976 (inclusive). Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Biography -- Jordan, Barbara. Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library
creatorOf Records of the U.S. House of Representatives. 1789 - 2015. Committee Papers. 1813 - 2011. Representative Barbara Jordan's Corrections to the Transcript of Her Statement on the Articles of Impeachment of President Richard Nixon Center for Legislative Archives
referencedIn Inventory of the William A. Owens Papers (Part Two) Cushing Memorial Library,
creatorOf Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996. Oral history interview with Barbara Jordan, 1970 July 7. University of North Texas Library, UNT
referencedIn Records of the National Organization for Women, 1959-2002 (inclusive), 1966-1998 (bulk) Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Sampson, Edith S. (Edith Spurlock), 1901?-1979. Papers, 1927-1979 (inclusive) 1934-1979 (bulk). Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn McNamee, Wally, 1932-2017. Wally McNamee Photographic Archive, ca. 1950-2017 Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
referencedIn Houston Post, Washington D.C. Bureau, Collection, 1963-1995 Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
referencedIn UT Barbara Jordan Historical Essay Competition archive. University of Texas Libraries
referencedIn Williams, S. Juanita, 1926-. S. Juanita Williams photographs, 1962-1983. Texas African American Photography Archive
referencedIn Winegarten (Ruthe) papers, 1912-2004 Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
referencedIn East, Catherine Shipe. Papers of Catherine Shipe East. 1941-1995 Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏
referencedIn Castillo, Leonel (Leonel J.),. Oral history interview with Leonel Castillo, 1996 [videorecording]. University of Texas at Arlington, Central Library
creatorOf Southern Elections Fund. Papers, 1965-1975 of the Fund and of the chairman of the Board of Trustees, Julian Bond [manuscript]. University of Virginia. Library
referencedIn UT Office of Community Relations, Division of Diversity and Community Engagement. UT Office of Community Relations, Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, records, 1997-2009. University of Texas Libraries
referencedIn Seals, Woodrow, 1917-1990. Judge Woodrow Seals Papers, 1941-1990 [Part 1] Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Libary
referencedIn Winegarten, Ruthe. Poster, 1967. Texas Woman's University Library, Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library
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referencedIn Herstory

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