Barbara Jordan was born on February 21, 1936 (to January 17, 1996). She was an inspiring member of the Texas State Senate, the United States Congress, a respected lawyer, and civil rights activist. Jordan was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern Black female elected to the United States House of Representatives. Barbara Charline Jordan grew up in the Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas. She was the daughter of a Baptist minister, […]

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