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"Who Speaks For The Negro?" (open access)

"Who Speaks For The Negro?"

Typed text of a speech entitled "Who Speaks for the Negro?" which was given by Barbara C. Jordan before a "Conference on the Role of News Media in Race Relations," sponsored by the Texas Daily Newspaper Association and the Texas Association of Broadcasters.
Date: May 27, 1968
Creator: Jordan, Barbara C.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Address of Barbara Jordan to the Nationwide Insurance Management conference, May 21, 1981, Columbus, Ohio (open access)

Address of Barbara Jordan to the Nationwide Insurance Management conference, May 21, 1981, Columbus, Ohio

Text of speech by Barbara Jordan regarding supply-side economics in the Reagan presidency.
Date: May 21, 1981
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Brandeis University Commencement, May 30, 1976 (open access)

Brandeis University Commencement, May 30, 1976

Convocation speech to the students of Brandeis University regarding the future of America and public service.
Date: May 30, 1976
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houston Rehabilitation-Welfare Project Report, Project RD-1334-D-63, May 1967 (open access)

The Houston Rehabilitation-Welfare Project Report, Project RD-1334-D-63, May 1967

Report discussing the Houston Rehabilitation-Welfare Project, the purpose of which was increase the availability of public assistance to disabled persons in or applying to vocational rehabilitation services.
Date: May 1967
Creator: Texas. Division of Vocational Education.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Barbara Jordan Acceptance Speech at Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award Dinner, May 9, 1989] (open access)

[Barbara Jordan Acceptance Speech at Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award Dinner, May 9, 1989]

Transcript of a speech delivered by Barbara Jordan at the Hubert H. Humphrey Civil Rights Award Dinner. She discusses Hubert Humphrey as well as the history and future of civil rights in America.
Date: May 9, 1989
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Draft of Hampton University Commencement, May 23rd, 1976] (open access)

[Draft of Hampton University Commencement, May 23rd, 1976]

Text draft of a commencement speech delivered by Barbara Jordan to the Hampton Institute matriculating class. Topics include public service and the future of the United States government.
Date: May 23, 1976
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
America the Beautiful: Fact or Fantasy (open access)

America the Beautiful: Fact or Fantasy

Text of speech by Barbara Jordan that was delivered at Virginia Union University. The speech discusses the Constitution and issues of local and national government control. Handwritten edits can be found throughout the paper.
Date: May 4, 1975
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Extension of the time limit for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment (open access)

Extension of the time limit for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment

Transcript of a speech that Barabara Jordan delivered to the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights House Committee on the Judiciary. The speech calls for an extension of the time limit for the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, arguing for its importance and a lack of constitutionally decreed deadlines for ratification.
Date: May 18, 1978
Creator: Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History