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Arnie Arnesen
Barbara Charline Jordan made history in 1966 as the first African American woman elected to the Texas Senate and the first African American to serve since 1883. Rising from Houston’s Fifth Ward, she became a national defender of the U.S. Constitution and a leading voice in Democratic Party politics for two decades.
Jordan’s journey began at Phyllis Wheatley High School, where she was inspired to pursue law. She later attended Texas Southern University, excelling as a debate team champion, before graduating magna cum laude in 1956 and earning her law degree from Boston University.
Elected to the U.S. Congress in 1972, Jordan became the first African American woman from the South to serve in the House of Representatives. Her landmark moments include her 1974 impeachment speech during the Nixon hearings, efforts to expand the Voting Rights Act in 1975, and her iconic 1976 Democratic National Convention keynote address.
From 1979 until her passing in 1996, Jordan was a distinguished professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, where she held the LBJ Centennial Chair in National Policy and delivered a keynote at the 1992 Democratic National Convention, cementing her legacy as a champion of democracy and civil rights.
"For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future…. We must address and master the future together.”
We must not become the new puritans and reject our society. We must address and master the future together. It can be done if we restore the belief that we share a sense of national community, that we share a common national endeavor. It can be done.
But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.
the citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
Bill Curry was a Connecticut state senator, comptroller and two time Democratic nominee for governor who served as Counselor to the President in the Clinton White House. He has written for Salon, the Daily Beast, the Huffington Post and the Hartford Courant and has provided commentary on National Public Radio, MSNBC and many other news outlets.
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