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BARBARA JORDAN Civil Rights Leader 1967 Signed Texas Senator see notes
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BARBARA JORDAN Civil Rights Leader 1967 Signed Texas Senator. Shipped with USPS First Class Package.When I served as a Page in the Texas House of Representatives (see attached roster book, not included) 1967-68.
Barbara Jordan was serving as Texas State Senator. I carried the roster book with me daily, and as a matter of the course of the day, I met Sen. Barbara Jordan and had her sign a page in my roster book.
Roster book not included. This signature page has been cared for and stored in the pages of the book since 1967.
Valuable and rare collectible.
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From Wikipedia:
Barbara Charline Jordan
(February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator
[1]
and
politician
who was a leader of the
Civil Rights Movement
. A
Democrat
, she was the first African American elected to the
Texas Senate
after
Reconstruction
and the first
Southern
African-American woman elected to the
United States House of Representatives
.
[2]
She was best known for her eloquent opening statement
[3]
at the House Judiciary Committee hearings during the
impeachment process against Richard Nixon
, and as the first African-American as well as the first woman to deliver a keynote address at the
1976 Democratic National Convention
. She received the
Presidential Medal of Freedom
, among numerous other honors. She was a member of the
Peabody Awards
Board of Jurors from 1978 to 1980.
[4]
She was the first African-American woman to be buried in the
Texas State Cemetery
.
[5]
[6]