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Barbara Jordan
she got raised in an all black neighborhood
Barbara Jordan was once a member of the US Congress. She was part of what was called the "Black caucus".Her main place of employment was Washington DC.
Barbara Jordan
Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve as a Texas syate senate. Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve as a Texas syate senate. Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve as a Texas syate senate. Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve as a Texas syate senate. Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve as a Texas syate senate. Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve as a Texas syate senate. Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve as a Texas syate senate. Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve as a Texas syate senate.
Barbara Jordan (Texas). Retired in 1978
Barbara Jordan was the first Black Congresswoman to be elected from the South. She was elected to office in 1976.
Barbara Jordan's childhood was hard mostly because she was a poor african-american girl living in an all-black neighborhood in Houston, Texas. Although she didn't think that way about herself, whom her parents taught her that way.
While not the first black woman elected to Congress, Barbara Jordan was the first black woman from the deep south to be elected to Congress. She represented Texas in the House of Representatives.
She was the first African American Congresswoman from the South. President Clinton gave her the Medal of Freedom.
Ian Black - politician - was born in 1943.