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Barbara Jordan (1936–1996) was an American politician, lawyer, writer, and university teacher. Born in Houston, she served as a member of the United States House of Representatives and was affiliated with the Democratic Party. She held citizenship in both the United States and the United Kingdom. Jordan was educated at Texas Southern University and Boston University School of Law.
Her career included work in Washington, D.C., and she was recognized with the Spingarn Medal, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and induction into the National Women's Hall of Fame. As an author, she contributed to works such as *Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze* and *Achieve Success in Spite of Stress*. She was a member of the Baptist faith and spoke English.
Jordan died of pneumonia in Austin from natural causes and is buried in the Texas State Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 14
Top works
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze
- Prentice Hall Literature -- Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes -- Bronze Level
- Achieve Success in Spite of Stress
- Songwriters Playground : Innovative Exercises in Creative Songwriting
- Beauty of the Moment
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1936
- Active to
- 1996
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 164
- Total plays
- 374
Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American politician who was both a product and a leader, of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African-American elected to the Texas Senate after reconstruction and the first Southern black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous other honors. On her death she became the first African-American woman to be interred in the Texas State Cemetery.
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,871x
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,721x
- International Physical Activity Questionnaire: 12-Country Reliability and Validity
· 2003 · cited 17,590x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,961x
- Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation
· 2010 · cited 13,971x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Earlier today we heard the beginning of the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States. ‘We the people.’ It is a very eloquent beginning. But, when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787, I was not included in that ‘We, the people.’ I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But, through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in ‘We, the people.’”
- “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.”
- “A spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny; if each of us remembers, when bitterness and self-interest seem to prevail, that we share a common destiny.”
- “What people want is simple. They want an America as good as its promise.”
- “You need a core inside you—a core that directs everything you do. You confer with it for guidance. It is not negotiable.”
- “This country can ill afford to continue to function using less than half of its human resources, less than half its kinetic energy, less than half its brain power.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Barbara
- Family name
- Jordan
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Houston
- Place of death
- Austin
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Position held
- member of the United States House of Representatives
- Employer
- University of Texas at Austin
- Political party
- Democratic Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Baptists
- Image
- Rep. Barbara Jordan - Restoration.jpg
- Work location
- Washington, D.C.
Show 10 more facts
- place of burial
- Texas State Cemetery
- date of birth
- 1936-02-21
- date of death
- 1996-01-17
- Commons category
- Barbara Jordan
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- name in native language
- Barbara Jordan
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- different from
- Barbara Jordan
- sexual orientation
- lesbianism
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