Kensi Gounden - The Making Of Barbara Jordan First African American Lawyer

Kensi Gounden presenting biography of Barbara Jordan (educator, lawyer and politician) was the first African American since Reconstruction to serve in the Texas Senate and then the first African American woman from the South to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Kensi Gounden - The Making Of Barbara Jordan First African American Lawyer


Barbara Jordan was born in Houston, Texas on February 21, 1936. Due to segregation, Jordan could not attend The University of Texas at Austin, and instead chose Texas Southern University, a historically-black institution. After majoring in political science, Jordan attended Boston University School of law in 1956 and graduated in 1959.  Massachusetts bar exam but moved to Tuskegee Institute (later renamed Tuskegee University) in Alabama and taught there for one year before returning to Texas and became a lawyer there as well.

Both as a state senator and as a U.S. congresswoman, she sponsored bills that championed the poor, the disadvantaged and people of color. As a congresswoman, she sponsored legislation to broaden the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to cover Mexican Americans in Texas and other southwestern states and to extend the law’s authority to those states where minorities had been denied the right to vote or had had their rights restricted by unfair registration practices, such as literacy tests.

After two unsuccessful campaigns for the Texas House of Representatives in 1962 and 1964, she won a seat in the Texas Senate in 1966. The victory made her the first African American state senator since Reconstruction in 1883, and the first woman to ever serve in that body.

Kensi Gounden - The Making Of Barbara Jordan First African American Lawyer
In 1972, Jordan was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as the first woman elected to represent Texas in the House. While serving in the House, she was a member of the House Judiciary Committee and where she later delivered an influential televised speech supporting the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.

In 1976, Jordan became the first black woman to deliver a keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.

Jordan was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton in 1994.

Historic Firsts:

  • First African-American woman elected to the Texas Senate
  • First Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives
  • First African-American woman to deliver a keynote address at a Democratic National Convention

Citations:

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Jordan
  • https://www.houstonisd.org/
  • https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/the-making-of-barbara-jordan-2/

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