[Barbara Jordan Thayer Award Acceptance Speech, October 5, 1995]

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Text of speech delivered by Barbara Jordan before an audience at West Point Military Academy. She discusses the concepts of honor and duty while accepting the Sylvanus Thayer Award.

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Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996 October 5, 1995.

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Text of speech delivered by Barbara Jordan before an audience at West Point Military Academy. She discusses the concepts of honor and duty while accepting the Sylvanus Thayer Award.

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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, 1936-1996. [Barbara Jordan Thayer Award Acceptance Speech, October 5, 1995], text, October 5, 1995; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth616552/: accessed May 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas Southern University.

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