Barbara Jordan American Hero

Name: Barbara Jordan American Hero
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ISBN: 9780553380668

ISBN-10: 0553380664

ISBN-13: 9780553380668

Edition: N/A

Authors: Mary Beth Rogers

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Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve in the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the first black woman elected to Congress from the South, and the first to deliver the keynote address at a national party convention. Yet Jordan herself remained a mystery, a woman so private that even her close friends did not know the name of the illness that debilitated her for two decades until it struck her down at the age of fifty-nine. In Barbara Jordan, Mary Beth Rogers deftly explores the forces that shaped the moral character and quiet dignity of this extraordinary woman. She reveals the seeds of Jordan's trademark stoicism while recapturing the essence of a black woman entering…

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List price: $21.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/4/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction



Color



The Ancestors



The Community



The Gift of Voice



The Transition



The Joy of Politics



The Right to Vote



The Pursuit of Power



Friends in High Places



The Opportunity



Running for Congress



The U.S. Congress



Watergate



"One of Those Texas Tribal Things"



The Voting Rights Act of 1975



Democrats



Decisions



Withdrawal and Renewal



American Patriot



Final Assignment


Acknowledgments


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Index