BARBARA JORDAN Civil Rights Leader 1967 Signed Texas Senator see notes

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BARBARA JORDAN Civil Rights Leader 1967 Signed Texas Senator. Shipped with USPS First Class Package.
When I served as a Page in the Texas House of Representatives (see attached roster book, not included) 1967-68.
Barbara Jordan was serving as Texas State Senator. I carried the roster book with me daily, and as a matter of the course of the day, I met Sen. Barbara Jordan and had her sign a page in my roster book.
Roster book not included. This signature page has been cared for and stored in the pages of the book since 1967.
Valuable and rare collectible.
Offers considered.
From Wikipedia:
Barbara Charline Jordan
(February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) was an American lawyer, educator
[1]
and
politician
who was a leader of the
Civil Rights Movement
. 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
.
[2]
She was best known for her eloquent opening statement
[3]
at the House Judiciary Committee hearings during the
impeachment process against Richard Nixon
, and as the first African-American as well as the first woman to deliver a keynote address at the
1976 Democratic National Convention
. She received the
Presidential Medal of Freedom
, among numerous other honors. She was a member of the
Peabody Awards
Board of Jurors from 1978 to 1980.
[4]
She was the first African-American woman to be buried in the
Texas State Cemetery
.
[5]
[6]