Letter from Charles F. Dambach to Barbara C. Jordan, thanking her for agreeing to present the Shriver Award at the National Peace Corps Association's awards luncheon. Included with the letter is background information about the Peace Corps, the National Peace Corps Association, Sargent Shriver and Loret Ruppe (namesakes for awards presented), and the award winners (Robert A. Pastor and North Caroline Returned Peace Corps Volunteers).
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Letter from Charles F. Dambach to Barbara C. Jordan, thanking her for agreeing to present the Shriver Award at the National Peace Corps Association's awards luncheon. Included with the letter is background information about the Peace Corps, the National Peace Corps Association, Sargent Shriver and Loret Ruppe (namesakes for awards presented), and the award winners (Robert A. Pastor and North Caroline Returned Peace Corps Volunteers).
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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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