Transcript of a speech delivered by Elaine Jones to introduce Barbara Jordan at the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Awards Dinner. Jones laments the loss of Jordan's presence as a watchdog of civil rights in the United States Congress.
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Transcript of a speech delivered by Elaine Jones to introduce Barbara Jordan at the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Awards Dinner. Jones laments the loss of Jordan's presence as a watchdog of civil rights in the United States Congress.
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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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Jones, Elaine R., 1944-.Introduction of the Honorable Barbara Jordan given by Elaine R. Jones at the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights,
text,
May 9, 1989;
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