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[Letter from Thomas G. Loeffler to Barbara Jordan, August 26, 1975] (open access)

[Letter from Thomas G. Loeffler to Barbara Jordan, August 26, 1975]

Letter from Thomas G. Loeffler to Barbara Jordan replying to an earlier phone call, and enclosing two photos taken during the "signing of the Voting Rights Bill on August 6th."
Date: August 26, 1975
Creator: Loeffler, Thomas G.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Barbara Jordan and Three Men]

Photograph of Barbara Jordan, Preston Smith, and two associates of the Conservation Federation of Texas speak at the Baytown Oyster Fry. Jordan is wearing a dark-colored dress, Smith is wearing a dark-colored suit, and the two associates are wearing light-colored shirts and dark-colored pants. There are two deer mounted on the wall in the background.
Date: January 26, 1968
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Barbara Jordan at the Keuka College Graduation Ceremony]

Photograph of Barbara Jordan receiving graduation hood from Keuka College. She is wearing dark-colored graduation robes, and standing near two men, both also wearing dark-colored graduation robes.
Date: May 26, 1974
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Barbara Jordan and Charles Rangel Examine a Copy of the Constitution]

Photograph of Barbara Jordan and Charles B. Rangel looking over a copy of the Constitution of the United States during the Nixon-Watergate impeachment hearings for the House Judiciary Committee.
Date: July 26, 1974
Creator: Associated Press
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Portrait of Barbara Jordan and an Unidentified Gentleman]

Photograph of Barbara Jordan standing with a faculty of Keuka College at the Keuka College commencement ceremony. Both are wearing dark-colored graduation robes, and visible from the chest up.
Date: May 26, 1974
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Barbara Jordan at the Keuka College Graduation Ceremony]

Photograph of Barbara Jordan standing with a graduate at the Keuka College commencement ceremony. The graduate is wearing a light-colored patterned dress and Jordan is wearing dark-colored graduation robes. There is a man standing near them in a dark-colored graduation robe and cap.
Date: May 26, 1974
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Testimony of Representative Barbara Jordan Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, House Committee on the Judiciary, February 26, 1975, Extension of the Voting Rights Act (open access)

Testimony of Representative Barbara Jordan Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, House Committee on the Judiciary, February 26, 1975, Extension of the Voting Rights Act

Text of speech delivered by Barbara Jordan in which she testified for the extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. She discusses discriminatory events that occurred before the act came to pass and warns of what could happen if it is allowed to expire. Includes a list of new proposed jurisdictions for coverage under the Act.
Date: February 26, 1975
Creator: Johnson, Lyndon B., (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Remarks of Representative Barbara Jordan - September 26th, 1975 - Television Information Office Luncheon (open access)

Remarks of Representative Barbara Jordan - September 26th, 1975 - Television Information Office Luncheon

Text for a speech given by Barbara C. Jordan at the Television Information Office Luncheon, about the American peoples' reliance on television for information about the government and politics, and how that affects governmental accountability to citizens.
Date: September 26, 1975
Creator: Jordan, Barbara C.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Accepting Democracy's Responsibilities (open access)

Accepting Democracy's Responsibilities

Text for a speech about the responsibility of democracy, given by Barbara C. Jordan as a Williams Lecturer at Johns Hopkins University.
Date: March 26, 1992
Creator: Jordan, Barbara C.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Remarks of Representative Barbara Jordan - September 26th, 1975 - Television Information Office Luncheon (open access)

Remarks of Representative Barbara Jordan - September 26th, 1975 - Television Information Office Luncheon

Text for a speech given by Barbara C. Jordan at the Television Information Office Luncheon, about the American peoples' reliance on television for information about the government and politics, and how that affects governmental accountability to citizens.
Date: September 26, 1975
Creator: Jordan, Barbara C.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Remarks of Representative Barbara Jordan Before the National School Board Association (open access)

Remarks of Representative Barbara Jordan Before the National School Board Association

Text for a speech given by Barbara C. Jordan for the National School Boards Association in Arlington, Virginia, concerning General Revenue Sharing.
Date: January 26, 1976
Creator: Jordan, Barbara C.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Remarks of Representative Barbara Jordan - September 26th, 1975 - Television Information Office Luncheon (open access)

Remarks of Representative Barbara Jordan - September 26th, 1975 - Television Information Office Luncheon

Text for a speech given by Barbara C. Jordan at the Television Information Office Luncheon, about the American peoples' reliance on television for information about the government and politics, and how that affects governmental accountability to citizens.
Date: September 26, 1975
Creator: Jordan, Barbara C.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Barbara Jordan - National Archives (open access)

Barbara Jordan - National Archives

Text of a speech given by Barbara C. Jordan at the National Archives in Washington D.C., about women's suffrage and the women behind the movement.
Date: August 26, 1995
Creator: Jordan, Barbara C.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Relation Between Liberty and the Rule of Law (open access)

The Relation Between Liberty and the Rule of Law

Text of speech at New York University's Annual Survey of American Law. She discusses the differences between liberty and the rule as well, as well as examples of what those terms mean.
Date: April 26, 1990
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Barbara Jordan, United Cerebral Palsy Greater Houston, Humanitarian Award Acceptance Remarks (open access)

Barbara Jordan, United Cerebral Palsy Greater Houston, Humanitarian Award Acceptance Remarks

Text of Barbara C. Jordan's acceptance speech for the Humanitarian Award from United Cerebral Palsy Greater Houston.
Date: June 26, 1993
Creator: Jordan, Barbara C.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cuyahoga Community College, March 26, 1977 (open access)

Cuyahoga Community College, March 26, 1977

Text for a speech by Barbara C. Jordan, given at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio, about the individual's personal contribution to government.
Date: March 26, 1977
Creator: Jordan, Barbara C.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Civil Liberties: Inoperative? In Audible? Unintelligible? Expletive Deleted? (open access)

Civil Liberties: Inoperative? In Audible? Unintelligible? Expletive Deleted?

Text of speech by Barbara Jordan given as the commencement address for Keuka College, regarding the erosion of civil liberties in the face of an expanding government. She calls for her audience to not abandon the government.
Date: May 26, 1974
Creator: Jorda, Barbara C.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pro Bono Programs - Democracy's Guarantor (open access)

Pro Bono Programs - Democracy's Guarantor

Text of remarks by Barbara Jordan regarding the virtue of pro bono work on behalf of the poor.
Date: April 26, 1995
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Memo from Robert Harris to Members of the President's Commission on Income Maintenance Programs] (open access)

[Memo from Robert Harris to Members of the President's Commission on Income Maintenance Programs]

Memo from Robert Harris to members of The President's Commission on Income Maintenance Programs, containing a detailed summary of the latest Commission meeting.
Date: March 26, 1968
Creator: Harris, Robert
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History