Making It -- Losing It (open access)

Making It -- Losing It

Text of a speech delivered by Barbara Jordan at a luncheon at the Annual indiana Black Expo. Topics include the financial struggles of African-Americans in the United States. This text is followed by a press release describing the speech and the event.
Date: July 6, 1974
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Remarks of Representative Barbra Jordan, 75th Anniversary Convention of the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks - Washington, D.C., May 6, 1975 (open access)

Remarks of Representative Barbra Jordan, 75th Anniversary Convention of the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks - Washington, D.C., May 6, 1975

Text of speech by Barbara Jordan regarding difficulties facing the United States and calling for a return to "government of, by, and for the people." (p. 5)
Date: May 6, 1975
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Remarks of Representative Barbra Jordan, 75th Anniversary Convention of the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks - Washington, D.C., May 6, 1975 (open access)

Remarks of Representative Barbra Jordan, 75th Anniversary Convention of the Brotherhood of Railway and Airline Clerks - Washington, D.C., May 6, 1975

Text of speech by Barbara Jordan regarding difficulties facing the United States and calling for a return to "government of, by, and for the people." (p. 5)
Date: May 6, 1975
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Barbara Jordan]

Photograph of Barbara Jordan at the signing of the Voting Rights Bill. She is sitting at a microphone, wearing a light-colored dress, and visible from the shoulders up.
Date: August 6, 1975
Creator: Sleet, Moneta, Jr.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Signing the Voting Rights Bill]

Photograph of Barbara Jordan and other members of Congress signing the Voting Rights Bill. Jordan is wearing a dark-colored dress, and the other people in the room are wearing suits and dresses.
Date: August 6, 1975
Creator: Sleet, Moneta, Jr.
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Remarks of the Honorable Barbara Jordan (D. Texas) to the Symposium on Health Care, Saturday, December 6, 1975 (open access)

Remarks of the Honorable Barbara Jordan (D. Texas) to the Symposium on Health Care, Saturday, December 6, 1975

Text of speech by Barbara Jordan regarding the cost of medical care in the United States. This text includes an itinerary for addresses through December 5 through 8.
Date: December 6, 1975
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Remarks of the Honorable Barbara Jordan (D. Texas) to the Symposium on Health Care, Saturday, December 6, 1975 (open access)

Remarks of the Honorable Barbara Jordan (D. Texas) to the Symposium on Health Care, Saturday, December 6, 1975

Text of speech by Barbara Jordan regarding the cost of medical care in the United States.
Date: December 6, 1975
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Draft of Speech to Texas Junior College Teachers Association, March 6th, 1976] (open access)

[Draft of Speech to Texas Junior College Teachers Association, March 6th, 1976]

Typed draft of a speech delivered by Barbara Jordan to the Texas Junior College Teachers Association. Censorship of class texts are discussed. Edits are written on each page of the document.
Date: March 6, 1976
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Barbara C. Jordan Speech for South Carolina Democratic Party Fundraiser] (open access)

[Barbara C. Jordan Speech for South Carolina Democratic Party Fundraiser]

Text for a speech given by Barbara C. Jordan at a fundraiser for the South Carolina Democratic Party.
Date: May 6, 1977
Creator: Jordan, Barbara C.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Barbara Jordan Remarks to South Carolina Democratic Party, May 6th, 1977 (open access)

[Barbara Jordan Remarks to South Carolina Democratic Party, May 6th, 1977

Text of speech by Barbara Jordan in which she discusses getting the disillusioned public interested in politics and voting.
Date: May 6, 1977
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History