Oral history interview with Barbara Jordan, 1970 July 7.

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Oral history interview with Barbara Jordan, 1970 July 7.

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Interview with Barbara Jordan concerning her experiences as an attorney, a member of the Texas Senate (1966-1970), her unsuccessful campaigns for the Texas House (1962, 1964), and her comments on the civil rights movement and its leadership. Jordan discusses her experiences in the Sixty-first Legislature as its first African-American member since Reconstruction, the Kennedy-Johnson campaign in 1960, civil rights, and civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Roy Wilkins, Adam Clayton Powell, Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), Stokely Carmichael, the Black Panthers, and Eldridge Cleaver. She also talks about the African-American image, working within The Establishment, revenue and spending bills, Governor Preston Smith and Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, the corporate profits tax, social legislation, student unrest, and the sales tax.

63 leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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