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Book Synopsis Barbara Jordan, the Great Lady from Texas by : Naurice Roberts
Download or read book Barbara Jordan, the Great Lady from Texas written by Naurice Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Texas lawyer and teacher who, among other achievements, served three terms in the House of Representatives, the first black woman ever to be elected to that office from the South.
Download or read book Barbara Jordan written by Naurice Roberts and published by Children's Press. This book was released on 1990-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heavily illustrated account of the former Texas Congresswoman.
Book Synopsis What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? by : Chris Barton
Download or read book What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? written by Chris Barton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When Barbara Jordan talked, we listened.” —Former President of the United States, Bill Clinton Congresswoman Barbara Jordan had a big, bold, confident voice—and she knew how to use it! Learn all about her amazing career in this illuminating and inspiring picture book biography of the lawyer, educator, politician, and civil rights leader. Even as a child growing up in the Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas, Barbara Jordan stood out for her big, bold, booming, crisp, clear, confident voice. It was a voice that made people sit up, stand up, and take notice. So what do you do with a voice like that? Barbara took her voice to places few African American women had been in the 1960s: first law school, then the Texas state senate, then up to the United States congress. Throughout her career, she persevered through adversity to give voice to the voiceless and to fight for civil rights, equality, and justice. New York Times bestselling author Chris Barton and Caldecott Honoree Ekua Holmes deliver a remarkable picture book biography about a woman whose struggles and mission continue to inspire today.
Download or read book Barbara Jordan written by Max Sherman and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of speeches by the much-admired congresswoman on the importance of ethics, the threat of tyranny, faith and politics, and more. Through her career as a Texas senator, US congresswoman, and distinguished professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, Barbara Jordan lived by a simple creed: “Ethical behavior means being honest, telling the truth, and doing what you said you were going to do.” Her strong stand for ethics in government, civil liberties, and democratic values still provides a standard around which the nation can unite in the twenty-first century. This volume collects several major speeches that articulate her most deeply held values. They include: “Erosion of Civil Liberties,” a commencement address delivered at Howard University on May 12, 1974, in which Jordan warned that “tyranny in America is possible” “The Constitutional Basis for Impeachment,” Jordan’s ringing defense of the US Constitution before the House Judiciary Committee investigating the Watergate break-in Keynote addresses to the 1976 and 1992 Democratic National Conventions, in which Jordan set forth her vision of the party as an advocate for the common good and catalyst of change Testimony in the U.S. Congress on the confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork and on immigration reform Meditations on faith and politics from two National Prayer Breakfasts Acceptance speech for the 1995 Sylvanus Thayer Award presented by the Association of Graduates of the United States Military Academy, in which Jordan challenged the military to uphold the values of “duty, honor, country” Accompanying the speeches are context-setting introductions by editor Max Sherman as well as the eloquent eulogy Bill Moyers delivered at Jordan’s memorial service, in which he summed up her remarkable life and career by saying, “Just when we despaired of finding a hero, she showed up.”
Book Synopsis Barbara Jordan by : Mary Beth Rogers
Download or read book Barbara Jordan written by Mary Beth Rogers and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Jordan was the first African American to serve in the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the first black woman elected to Congress from the South, and the first to deliver the keynote address at a national party convention. Yet Jordan herself remained a mystery, a woman so private that even her close friends did not know the name of the illness that debilitated her for two decades until it struck her down at the age of fifty-nine. In Barbara Jordan, Mary Beth Rogers deftly explores the forces that shaped the moral character and quiet dignity of this extraordinary woman. She reveals the seeds of Jordan's trademark stoicism while recapturing the essence of a black woman entering politics just as the civil rights movement exploded across the nation. Celebrating Jordan's elegance, passion, and patriotism, this illuminating portrayal gives new depth to our understanding of one of the most influential women of our time-a woman whose powerful convictions and flair for oratorical drama changed the political landscape of America's twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Barbara Jordan, a Self-portrait by : Barbara Jordan
Download or read book Barbara Jordan, a Self-portrait written by Barbara Jordan and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of the Afro-American woman who, after serving in the Texas legislature, became a representative to the United States Congress.
Book Synopsis Barbara Jordan by : Linda Carlson Johnson
Download or read book Barbara Jordan written by Linda Carlson Johnson and published by Blackbirch Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1993-02 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the life and career of the black woman from Texas who became a lawyer, state legislator, and member of the United States Congress.
Download or read book Barbara Jordan written by Lucia Raatma and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbara Jordan was the first African American elected to the Texas senate and a leader in the Civil Rights movement. From an early age, she was recognized for her educational excellence, and her gift of language and debate. Her presence in the House of Representatives in 1966 was not well received, but Jordan quickly won her colleagues over with her intelligence and commitment to her constituents. Her later years were spent on educational work and in 1994 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bill Clinton. This book details her life and career achievements while focusing on the Civil Rights Movement. History-specific terms, timelines, primary source, photographs, quotes and excerpts round out this book about this important and worldly individual.
Book Synopsis Barbara Jordan by : James Mendelsohn
Download or read book Barbara Jordan written by James Mendelsohn and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life, accomplishments, and views of this distinguished congresswoman, and provides an overview of the history of blacks in Texas.
Book Synopsis Barbara Jordan by : Ann Fears Crawford
Download or read book Barbara Jordan written by Ann Fears Crawford and published by Halcyon Press Ltd.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life of this African American woman who was a respected lawyer, politician, teacher, and spokesperson for democracy.
Book Synopsis Boss Texas Women by : Casey Chapman Ross
Download or read book Boss Texas Women written by Casey Chapman Ross and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of the women in this book worked to make Texas a better place. Some of them are doing great work today-even as you read about them! They have all overcome great challenges and used their special talents to succeed. Their stories are as diverse as Texas. There are countless Boss Women of Texas, and YOU are one of them! We encourage you to learn more about each of these women and let them inspire you to write your own story.
Download or read book Barbara Jordan written by Mary B. Rogers and published by . This book was released on 2008-05-16 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of the first AfricanAmerican woman elected to the Texas Senate and the U.S. Congress details her rise from Houston's Fifth Ward to influential political leader, her decision to become a teacher, and her fierce determination, sincerity, bravery, decorum, and oratorical skills. Reprint.
Download or read book Barbara Jordan written by Connor Stratton and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Reader's Theater Texas: The Many Firsts of Barbara Jordan by : Timothy Rasinski
Download or read book Reader's Theater Texas: The Many Firsts of Barbara Jordan written by Timothy Rasinski and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improve students' reading fluency while providing fun and purposeful practice and performance through this reader's theater script. Engage students through reader's theater to make learning fun while building knowledge about Barbara Jordan.
Book Synopsis Capitol Women by : Nancy Baker Jones
Download or read book Capitol Women written by Nancy Baker Jones and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with bar rooms and bordellos, there has hardly been a more male-focused institution in Texas history than the Texas Legislature. Yet the eighty-six women who have served there have made a mark on the institution through the legislation they have passed, much of which addresses their concerns as citizens who have been inadequately represented by male lawmakers. This first complete record of the women of the Texas Legislature places such well-known figures as Kay Bailey Hutchison, Sissy Farenthold, Barbara Jordan, Irma Rangel, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Susan Combs, and Judith Zaffirini in the context of their times and among the women and men with whom they served. Drawing on years of primary research and interviews, Nancy Baker Jones and Ruthe Winegarten offer concise biographies and profiles of all eighty-six women who have served or currently hold office in the Texas Legislature. The biographies describe the women lawmakers' lives, campaign strategies, and legislative successes and defeats. Four introductory essays provide historical and cultural context for the biographies, which are arranged chronologically to give a sense of the passage of time, of relationships among and between women, and of the issues of their eras.
Book Synopsis A Private Woman in Public Spaces by : Barbara A. Holmes
Download or read book A Private Woman in Public Spaces written by Barbara A. Holmes and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive analysis of Barbara Jordan's written speeches. The speeches offer important insights into Jordan's moral theories and her model of a flourishing multi-ethnic society.
Book Synopsis My Stories, All True by : Pamela A. LeBlanc
Download or read book My Stories, All True written by Pamela A. LeBlanc and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. David Bamberger has been profiled in the New York Times and the New Yorker, interviewed on NPR, and featured in a National Geographic video. He and his Texas Hill Country ranch have been the subject of many articles and two books published by Texas A&M University Press. In My Stories, All True, Bamberger, now in his nineties, tells the story of his life as an entrepreneur and conservationist in his own way. He recounts to journalist and friend Pamela LeBlanc how he made a living as a vacuum cleaner salesman, struck it rich as a partner in a wildly successful chain of fried chicken restaurants, and bought, then brought back to life, the “sorriest piece of land” in Blanco County, Texas—the rural oasis he calls Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve. For more than a year, Bamberger and LeBlanc roamed the preserve—five thousand acres nursed back to environmental health with money earned from the sale of Church’s Chicken—as Bamberger reminisced about losing his father in a steel factory accident; gathering mushrooms to sell to neighbors when he was a kid; making a living as a door-to-door salesman; running a multimillion-dollar restaurant business; rubbing shoulders with the likes of Sam Walton, Jane Goodall, and Lady Bird Johnson; and, finally, turning to his land for the work that has earned national acclaim. With a storyteller’s flair and insightful commentary from LeBlanc, Bamberger shares the tales of a remarkable life—as a resourceful country boy, a savvy entrepreneur, and a consummate conservationist whose vision has set the standard for the restoration of nature on private lands worldwide.
