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Celebrating Barbara Jordan!!!

Stunning Black Woman - Barbara Jordan!!!

“Education remains the key to both Economic and Political Empowerment” – one of the best quotes of Barbara Jordan…

Barbara Charline Jordan was an awesome American lawyer, Educationist and Lawmaker who was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement. As a Lawmaker, she was the first African American voted in to the Texas Senate after Rehabilitation, the first Southern African-American woman voted in to the United States House of Representatives. She was best well known for her outspoken opening presentation at the House Judiciary Committee earshot during the allegation process against Richard Nixon, and as the first African-American woman to drop a core address at a Democratic National meeting. She acknowledged the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among various other fames. She served as a representative of the Peabody Awards Board of Jurors from 1978 to 1980. She was the first African-American woman to be entombed in the Texas State graveyard.

Barabara was born in Houston on February 21^st 1936 and was focused on church life. her father was a Baptist evangelist named Benjamin Jordan and her mother was a teacher at the church, named Arlyne Patten Jordan. Barbara was the 3^rd child for their parents. She started her education at Roberson Elementary School and was graduated from Phillis Wheatley High School in 1952 with tributes.

Barbara was very much impressed by the speech of Edith S. Sampson at her high school and this made her urge to become a Lawyer. Due to discrimination Barbara was not able to join the The University of Texas at Austin, instead she preferred Texas Southern University, a historically-black institution and opted historical science as his major subject. During these years, she was a National Champion Debater and she was graduated magna cum laude in the year 1956. And also she graduated from Boston University School of Law in 1959.

Successful career

Taught Political science at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama for a year
Started her own private law practice in 1960 at Houston
Unsuccessful campaigns for the Texas House of Representatives in 1962 and 1964
Triumphed a seat in the Texas Senate in 1968 and served until 1972
First African American Female to serve as President Pro Tem of the State Senate
Served one day as Acting Governor of Texas on June 10^th 1972
Barbara sponsored some 70 bills during her time in the Texas Legislature
Elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972
Made a persuasive televised speech before the House Judiciary Committee
Appointed to the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee by Carl Albert, then Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
The first African-American woman to deliver a keynote address at the Democratic National Convention
Retired from Politics in 1979
Turned to a n appendage professor at the University of Texas at Austin Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, teaching ethics
Again served as a keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention in 1992
Chaired the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform in 1994 and until her death in 1996

Appreciations and legacy

Inducted into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame in 1984

Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1990
The Spingarn Medal from the NAACP in 1992
The Elizabeth Blackwell Award from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in 1993
The Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994
The second ever Female Awardee of the United States Military Academy's Sylvanus Thayer Award in 1995

Namesakes of Barbara Jordan in TEXAS

The primary terminal at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is named after Barbara Jordan
As well as a boulevard (usually a large road, running through the city) in central Austin
Several schools bear Barbara Jordan’s name
The Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars, presently managed by The Kaiser Family Foundation

Other countable tributes of Barbara Jordan

The Jordan/Rustin Coalition (JRC) was established in Jordan's honor in 2000
A play based on Barbara Jordon’s life was premised at the Victory Garden Theater in Chicago, Illinois on March 27^th 2000
Kristine Thatcher's biographical evocation of Jordan's life named “Voice of Good Hope” was played in the theaters from San Francisco to New York
A Barbara Jordan statue was opened at the University of Texas at Austin on April 24^th 2009, where Jordan taught at the time of her death
Jade Esteban Estrada actor/playwright, illustrated Barbara Jordan in the solo musical comedy ICONS: The Lesbian and Gay History of the World, Vol. 5 in 2011
The Barbara Jordan Forever Stamp was released in the year 2011, which was the 34th stamp in the Black Heritage series of U.S. stamps
Barbara Jordan was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display which celebrates LGBT history and people in 2012
The Barbara Jordan Media Awards are given every year to media professionals and students who "have composed materials for the public which exactly and undoubtedly addresses on persons with disabilities, using People First language and gracious portrayals"
The Barbara Jordan Public-Private Leadership Award is also given in honor of Barbara Jordan

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