Text for a commencement address given by Barbara C. Jordan for the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Included is a Library of Congress Congressional Research Service cover page, with Charles H. Whittier's name and title (Analyst, History and Public Affairs, Government and General Research Division) listed at the bottom of the page.
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Text for a commencement address given by Barbara C. Jordan for the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. Included is a Library of Congress Congressional Research Service cover page, with Charles H. Whittier's name and title (Analyst, History and Public Affairs, Government and General Research Division) listed at the bottom of the page.
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The Barbara C. Jordan Archives
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.
Collections funded by the Tocker Foundation, which distributes funds principally for the support, encouragement, and assistance to small rural libraries in Texas.
Jordan, Barbara C. & Whittier, Charles H.Life's Moral Possibilities: Commencement Address to Baylor College of Medicine,
text,
August 29, 1973;
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth611144/:
accessed May 28, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting Texas Southern University.