Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21 1936 – January 17 1996) was an American politician and a leader of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives and the first African-American woman to deliver the keynote address at a Democratic National Convention. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom among numerous other honors.
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