Barbara Charline Jordan

By lucie1019

  • Barbara C. Jordan is born

  • Period: to

    lifespan

  • graduated magna cun laude

  • gets law degree from Boston University

  • started registering black voters for the next presidential campaign

  • unanimously elected president pro tempore of the senate

  • first black woman from the south to serve in congress and in the first two african americans iin the twentyeth century to serve in th e senate

  • earned a national prominence for her public speaking

  • published her autobiography " Barbara Jordan: a self portrait"

  • first black state senator

  • earned the Presidental Medal of Freedom

  • served as chairwomen of the US Commision of Immigration Reform

  • Barbara C. Jordan dies

    dies in Austin,Texas