jul 12, 1976 - Barbara Jordan
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Barbara Jordan was the first Black woman elected to the Texas state senate and the first Black Texan in Congress.She was also the first Black woman to deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. She tells the assembled delegates:
"We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are people in search of a national community. We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present, but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America."
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jul 12, 1976
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~ 48 years ago