[Letter from Ira L. Clark to Barbara C. Jordan, September 25, 1967]

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Letter from Ira L. Clark to Barbara C. Jordan, thanking her for agreeing to speak to the City-Wide Brotherhood Union at Damascus Baptist Church in Houston, Texas.

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[1] p. ; 28 cm.

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Clark, Ira L. September 25, 1967.

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  • Main Title: [Letter from Ira L. Clark to Barbara C. Jordan, September 25, 1967]
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Letter from Ira L. Clark to Barbara C. Jordan, thanking her for agreeing to speak to the City-Wide Brotherhood Union at Damascus Baptist Church in Houston, Texas.

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[1] p. ; 28 cm.

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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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Clark, Ira L. [Letter from Ira L. Clark to Barbara C. Jordan, September 25, 1967], letter, September 25, 1967; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth595256/: accessed December 7, 2025), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas Southern University.

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