REMEMBERING BARBARA JORDAN ON HER BIRTHDAY

• Member of the first debate team from an African-American university to compete in the forensic tournament held annually at Baylor University.
• Served as administrative assistant to the County Judge of Harris County, becoming the first African-American woman to hold that position.
• First African-American state senator in Texas since the Reconstruction period following the Civil War. (1966)
• Author of the first successful minimum wage bill in the state of Texas.
• Served as “Governor for a Day” while president pro-tempore of the Texas Senate in 1972, becoming the first African-American woman to serve as chief executive of any state in the union.
• Along with Andrew Young of Georgia, first African-American Southerner to be elected to the U.S. Congress since Reconstruction. (1972)
• First African-American woman from the South to be elected to the U.S. Congress.
• First African-American Texan elected to Congress.
• First woman and the first African-American to deliver the keynote address to the Democratic National Convention.(1976)
• First African-American buried in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin.
• First female to be honored with a statue on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin,

http://diversity.utexas.edu/barbarajordanstatue/history-of-barbara-jordan/

JORDAN ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL BASIS FOR 

NIXON'S IMPEACHMENT  (1974)