Barbara Jordan was a woman of many firsts in her career. In her relatively short time in Congress and the Texas State Senate, she left an immeasurable impact and in a cynical and dark age in American ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. When voters in Texas’s Eighteenth ...

If she were alive, Texan Barbara Jordan would heartily endorse the celebration of Juneteenth, the federal holiday signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2021. The congresswoman has faded into ...

Houston native and renowned artist Angelbert Metoyer grew up knowing about Barbara Jordan. But when he was commissioned to design a monument to the congresswoman, lawyer and civil rights activist, ...