Text for a speech given by Barbara C. Jordan at a tribute to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall at the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Text for a speech given by Barbara C. Jordan at a tribute to Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall at the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Photographs from the Barbara C. Jordan Archives. Barbara Jordan ran for the Texas House twice (1962, 1964). She won a seat in the Texas Senate in 1966, becoming the first African American since Reconstruction to do so.
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Jordan, Barbara C.Barbara Jordan, Thurgood Marshall Tribute, American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii,
text,
September 17, 1993;
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