Text of speech by Barbara Jordan regarding the welfare of black small business owners. Handwritten edits appear throughout the text, and several sections have been crossed out.
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Text of speech by Barbara Jordan regarding the welfare of black small business owners. Handwritten edits appear throughout the text, and several sections have been crossed out.
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The Barbara C. Jordan Archives
Photographs from the Barbara C. Jordan Archives. Barbara Jordan ran for the Texas House twice (1962, 1964). She won a seat in the Texas Senate in 1966, becoming the first African American since Reconstruction to do so.
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Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996.Remarks of Representative Barbara Jordan, Office of Minority Business Enterprise Trade Fair, Jackson, Mississippi - July 19, 1975,
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