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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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Jordan, Barbara C.Remarks of Representative Barbara Jordan Before the University of Texas Union,
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February 12, 1976;
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