Text of testimony delivered by Barbara Jordan to a committee regarding the proposed Equal Access to Voting Act. She discusses low voter turnout and the barriers to voter registration.
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Text of testimony delivered by Barbara Jordan to a committee regarding the proposed Equal Access to Voting Act. She discusses low voter turnout and the barriers to voter registration.
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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.[Barbara Jordan Testimony for the Equal Access to Voting Act, May 10, 1989],
text,
May 10, 1989;
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