Barbara Charline Jordan Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American politician and a leader of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives, and the first African-American woman to deliver the keynote address at a Democratic National Convention. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous other honors. On her death, she became the first African-American woman to be buried in the Texas State Cemetery.
"My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." (spoken while as a member of the House Judiciary Committee in 1974).
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Pictured on a non-denominated ('forever') USA commemorative postage stamp in the Black Heritage series, issued 16 September 2011. Price on day of issue was 44¢.
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She was subject of a play by Kristine Thatcher, "Voice of Good Hope," which the author directed at BoarsHead Theater, Lansing, MI, opening March 16, 2007, and featuring Patricia Idlette as Jordan.
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Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 302-304. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
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U.S. Representative from Texas (1973-1979).
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In the eighties, she was a professor at the University of Texas.
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She published her autobiography, Barbara Jordan: A Self Portrait, in 1979.
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In her later years, suffered from multiple sclerosis and was confined to a wheelchair.
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She was the first black woman from a Southern state to serve in Congress (1973-1979). She was also the first of two black congressman to serve from the South in the twentieth century.
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She survived a near-drowning incident at her home in 1988.
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She served as chairwoman of the United States Commission on Immigration Reform in 1994.
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Ethics advisor for Gov. Ann Richards in the early nineties.
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Keynote speaker at the Democratic Convention of 1976 (the first woman to do so) and again in 1992.
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She became famous during the Watergate hearings in 1974.
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Noted for her oratorical skills.
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She was a Texas state senator (the first African-American since 1883) during the late sixties and early seventies (eventually becoming president pro tempore).
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She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994.
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Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1990.
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
One Voice
1986
TV Special documentary
Herself - Audience Member (uncredited)
The Statue of Liberty
1985
Documentary
Herself
The Barbara Walters Summer Special
1977
TV Series
Herself
Dream Girl of '67
1967
TV Series
Herself - Fashion Hostess
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
What Barbara Jordan Wore
2002
Video documentary short
Herself
Known for movies
The Statue of Liberty (1985) as Herself
Dream Girl of '67 (1967) as Herself - Fashion Hostess
One Voice (1986) as Herself - Audience Member
The Barbara Walters Summer Special (1977) as Herself
$8 Million
