Barbara Charline Jordan served as a Texas state senator and United States Congresswoman; she was also an educator and orator. She graduated Texas Southern University with a B.A. and Boston University School of Law. Her many accomplishments include being; the first African-American state senator in the U.S. since 1883, first African American elected to the United States House of Representatives from the Deep South since 1898, first African American woman on the House Judiciary Committee, and the first woman and the first African-American keynote speaker at a Democratic National Convention.

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