As Actor
The Statue of Liberty
1985
6.7
Barbara Jordan
Acting
Birth date
February 21, 1936
Birth place
Houston, Texas, USA
Death date
January 17, 1996
Biography
Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator, and politician. A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first Southern African-American woman elected to the United States House of Representatives. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Jordan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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