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	Barbara Jordan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jordan was born in Houston, Texas's Fifth Ward.
		Jordan attended Wheatley High School and graduated magna cum laude from Texas Southern University in 1956 and from Boston University Law School in 1959.
		Because of her illness, Jordan retired from politics in 1979 and became a professor at the University of Texas at Austin Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbara_Jordan (445 words)

	Encyclopedia: Barbara Jordan
		Barbara Jordan was the first Black woman to serve in the U.S. Congress from the South.
		Barbara Jordan was born in the Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas to a Black Baptist minister, Benjamin Jordan, and a domestic worker, Arlyne Jordan.
		Barbara Charline Jordan was born February 21, 1936, in Houston, Texas.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Barbara-Jordan (1632 words)

	TxTell: Barbara Jordan
		Barbara Charline Jordan was born in Houston, Texas, on February 21, 1936, the youngest of three daughters of Benjamin and Arlyne (Patten) Jordan.
		Barbara Jordan gained national prominence for her role in the 1974 Watergate hearings as a member of the House Judiciary Committee when she delivered what many considered to be the best speech of the hearings.
		Barbara Jordan suffered from a number of ailments in her later years, including a form of multiple sclerosis, and was confined to a wheelchair.
	txtell.lib.utexas.edu /stories/j0001-full.html (1007 words)

	Barbara Jordan lived as pioneer and prophet
		Barbara C. Jordan, who rose from a poor preacher's family in Houston's Fifth Ward to build a career in government that some believe could have carried her to the White House, died Wednesday at 59 in Austin.
		Jordan's infrequent returns to the limelight rekindled the almost unbounded adulation that marked her time in politics and also revived talk not only of all she had done but of what might have been.
		Jordan refused pleas of fls and liberals to allow her name to be placed in nomination for vice president as a way of gaining a brief national forum for their favorite issues.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/page1/96/01/18/jordannu.html (1873 words)

	Barbara Jordan
		Barbara was a national champion debater, defeating her opponents from such schools as Yale and Brown and tying Harvard University.
		Jordan was chosen as a keynote speaker for the Democratic National Convention in 1976, and again in 1992.
		Barbara Jordan died of complications from pneumonia on January 17, 1996.
	www.beejae.com /bjordan.htm (680 words)

	UT Feature Story -- A Voice That Could Not Be Stilled: Barbara Jordan's legacy of equality and justice
		Barbara Jordan was the first African American since Reconstruction to serve in the Texas Senate and then the first African American woman from the South to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
		Jordan gained national prominence for her role in the 1974 Watergate hearings as a member of the House Judiciary Committee when she delivered what many considered to be the most powerful speech of the hearings.
		Barbara Jordan gained national prominence for her role in the 1974 Watergate hearings as a member of the House Judiciary Committee when she delivered what many considered to be the most powerful speech of the hearings.
	www.utexas.edu /features/archive/2003/jordan.html (1150 words)

	Votes for Women! - Barbara Jordan - Texas State Library
		Barbara Jordan's smile during "Governor for a Day" ceremonies in 1972 reflects the long distance traveled by African-American women since being excluded from the women's suffrage movement 50 years earlier.
		In 1972, Barbara Jordan was elected to the U.S. Congress, becoming the first African American to represent Texas in Washington and one of the first two elected from the South in the 20th century.
		Jordan was widely considered a future vice-presidential or presidential possibility until her public career was cut short by multiple sclerosis.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /exhibits/suffrage/aftermath/barbara_jordan.html (352 words)

	The Barbara Jordan Page
		Jordan graduated magna cum laude from Texas Southern University in 1956, and earned her law degree from Boston University in 1959.
		When Jordan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972 she became the first African-American woman to represent a previously Confederate state in Congress.
		Jordan retired from politics in 1979 after three terms in Congress and accepted a position on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin.
	www.lambda.net /~maximum/jordan.html (649 words)

	Barbara Jordan
		Barbara Jordan, the first fl representative from Texas was born in Houston on February 21, 1936.
		Jordan and other freshman representatives met with Speaker Carl Albert and arranged a meeting on the House floor in April to provide newly elected Democrats an opportunity to express their frustration with the difficult relations between Congress and the Executive Branch.
		Jordan questioned the civil rights record of House Republican leader Gerald Ford when he was nominated for vice president, and joined seven other Judiciary Committee members in voting against his confirmation.
	www.house.gov /jacksonlee/AllAboutHouston/barbara_charline_jordan.htm (562 words)

	Barbara Jordan Statue Project \| Committee Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Barbara Jordan served her state and her country and gave back to The University of Texas community -all things we as Orange Jackets are committed to doing throughout our lifetime.
		Barbara Jordan worked with a passion and vigor that inspired all who knew her, and her lifelong commitment to public service is her legacy to future generations.
		Jordan combined the enthusiasm, idealism, and tirelessness of youth with the wisdom and patience of age, and her success proves that no goal is unreachable, no hope is useless.
	deanofstudents.utexas.edu /barbarajordan/committee.html (1308 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Women's History - Biographies - Barbara Jordan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Barbara's outlook on life as well as her strength and determination can be attributed to the influence of her maternal grandfather, John Ed Patten, a former minister who was also a businessman.
		Jordan impressed the state senate members with her intelligence, oration, and ability to fit in with the "old boys' club." She remained in the state senate for six years, until 1972.
		Jordan's membership in the House of Representatives was to be one of the many highlights of her political career.
	www.gale.com /free_resources/whm/bio/jordan_b.htm (2142 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: JORDAN, BARBARA CHARLINE
		Barbara Jordan, politician and educator, was born in Houston, Texas, on February 21, 1936, the youngest of three daughters of Benjamin and Arlyne (Patten) Jordan.
		Eschewing a confrontational approach, Jordan quickly developed a reputation as a master of detail and as an effective pragmatist and gained the respect of her thirty white male colleagues.
		Her papers are housed at the Barbara Jordan Archives at Texas Southern University.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/JJ/fjoas.html (702 words)

	Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Barbara Jordan
		President Clinton's words were Barbara Jordan's words, repeated, recounted and revered, praised for the power and eloquence of the woman and her ideas.
		Barbara Jordan, who died in Austin on January 17, 1996, at the age of 59, was a member of the faculty of The University of Texas for 17 years.
		Barbara Jordan enjoyed life: she loved barbecue and basketball, could sing "Frankie and Johnnie" with gusto, was fond of money but didn’t like to spend it, had a great talent for friendship, and was a practical joker.
	www.medaloffreedom.com /BarbaraJordan.htm (3682 words)

	Books: Two Biographies on Barbara Jordan
		Once in 1968 when Jordan was a Texas senator, President Johnson wanted to issue a personal invitation to her to serve on the Income Maintenance Commission, and he reached her at her parents' house in Houston: "'It upset my mother to no end,' Jordan said.
		Jordan was fiercely ambitious and became a quick study in political maneuvering in both the Texas Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives.
		Sure, Barbara Jordan kept secrets, but she also had a way of seeking and telling the truth that made people look up to her and that should make us, lesbians and all, eager to know more.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol18/issue24/books.VSBR.html (967 words)

	Heroism Project \| 1970s \| Barbara Jordan
		While Jordan rightly attributes due process and the courts as important mechanisms to extend the American Dream to traditionally underrepresented people, she fails to mention one more important factor: people like herself who were willing to stand up to the system and fight for what they believed in, no matter what the consequences.
		Jordan and her two older sisters were raised by their strict, disciplinarian father who did not allow smoking, drinking or dancing under his watch.
		Jordan's life was filled with "firsts", and her election to the US House of Representative to serve the 18th Congressional District of Texas was no exception.
	www.heroism.org /class/1970/jordan.html (1001 words)

	Barbara Jordan Gallery
		Barbara Jordan was born and raised in Long Beach, California.
		Barbara is now exhibiting in juried art shows as well as in her own gallery located in Sugarloaf, CA.
		Barbara has a special desire to educate children about the environment by developing their interest in the animals and their habitat needs.
	www.monkeytime.com /sciencemaster/galleries/jordan/gallery.php (721 words)

	Barbara Jordan Biography
		Jordan's victory made her the first African-American woman to serve in the Texas Senate and the first African-American elected to that body since 1883.
		The highlights of Jordan's legislative career include her landmark speech during Richard Nixon's impeachment hearings in 1974, her successful efforts in 1975 to expand the Voting Rights Act to include language minorities, and her keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in 1976.
		Jordan was born February 21, 1936, in Houston, one of three daughters of a Baptist preacher and warehouse clerk.
	www.utexas.edu /lbj/barbarajordanforum/aboutbj_biography.htm (293 words)

	Barbara Jordan - a Texas Heroine
		Jordan graduated from Texas Southern University (1956) and was the first fl student at Boston University Law School (1956-59).
		She served as the only woman and the only fl in the Texas State Senate (1966-72) and was consulted by President Lyndon B. Johnson on civil rights legislation.
		Her autobiography, "Barbara Jordan: A Self-Portrait", was published in 1979.
	www.lnstar.com /mall/texasinfo/bjordan.htm (165 words)

	Barbara Jordan Statue Project \| Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1966, Barbara Jordan did the impossible: she was elected as the first African-American woman from the South to serve in the U.S. Congress.
		Jordan's tireless efforts for her nation and her fellow citizens made her a national treasure.
		Barbara Jordan remains an example of how one person's commitment to her beliefs can inspire and shape the world.
	www.utbarbarajordanstatue.org (169 words)

	NewsHour Online: Barbara Jordan Remembered
		BARBARA JORDAN, (D) Texas: (House Impeachment Hearing - July 25, 1974) Earlier today, we heard the beginning of the preamble to the Constitution of the United States.
		Jordan was a woman of magisterial dignity, and she wore that dignity like armor because she needed to.
		Jordan overcame all of that by sheer strength of personality, by ability, by her force of intelligence, and, of course, her superb voice, the rhetoric.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/remember/jordan_1-17.html (1329 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Barbara Jordan
		Vercellotti is survived by her husband, Leonard; son Jim of Plum; daughters, Barbara Jordan of Hillsborough, N.C., and Veronica Vercellotti of Oakmont; brothers Laird Horrell of Alexandria, Va. and Robert Horrell of Bethel Park; and a sister, Miriam Giroux, of Squirrel Hill.
		Barbara Jordan An outstanding junior tennis player in Pennsylvania, Jordan was one of the first women to receive a sports scholarship to Stanford, where she was a three-time All-American in 1976-78...
		Barbara Jordan, past club president and one of the organizing members of the event, said that although former President George Bush and wife Barbara will not attend, the group has been told to anticipate a letter of congratulations from them that evening.
	history.surfwax.com /files/Barbara_Jordan_America.html (4293 words)

	Jordan, Barbara
		Barbara Jordan was a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs from 1979 to 1996 and holder of the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy at the LBJ School.
		Jordan served in the U.S. House of Representatives from the 18th District of Texas from 1972-1978, in the Texas Senate from 1966-1972, and practiced law in Houston from 1960-1966.
		Her autobiography, Barbara Jordan: A Self-Portrait, written with Shelby Hearon, was published in 1979.
	www.twu.edu /twhf/tw-jordan.htm (188 words)

	Jordan, Barbara Charline on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		JORDAN, BARBARA CHARLINE [Jordan, Barbara Charline] 1936-96, African-American lawyer, public official, and educator, b.
		Barbara Jordan, former congresswoman and educator, dies at 59 in Austin, TX.(Obituary)
		The fiercely private Barbara Jordan goes public with immigration reform.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/J/JordanB1ar.asp (289 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Women's History - Biographies - Barbara Jordan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Barbara spent most of her free time with her grandfather Patten, who served as her mentor.
		Barbara received many awards during her high school years, particularly for her talent as an orator.
		Jordan's popularity was at its zenith when talk of her running for the vice presidency was rampant among her supporters.
	www.galegroup.com /free_resources/whm/bio/jordan_b.htm (2142 words)

	AllRefer.com - Barbara Charline Jordan (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Barbara Charline Jordan 1936–96, African-American lawyer, public official, and educator, b.
		After graduating from Boston Univ. Law School (1959), she practiced law in Houston.
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	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/J/JordanBar.html (231 words)

	Texas Southern University > About TSU > RJT Library > Special Collections
		Barbara Jordan (1936-1996) was the first African American woman to serve in the Texas State Senate; she was the first African American U.S. Representative from Texas and the first African American to deliver a keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention.
		Jordan donated her papers to Texas Southern University in 1978.
		When Jordan attended Texas Southern University 1952-1956, she was active on the Debate Team and graduate magna cum laude.
	www.tsu.edu /about/library/special.asp (974 words)

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