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Barbara Jordan: 1st Black Woman from a Southern State to Serve in the House of Representatives

Posted on 28. Jan, 2010 by Leshell Hatley.

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In 1972, Barbara Jordan was elected to serve in the Ninety-third Congress, becoming the first African American woman elected to Congress from Texas and the first African American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the South. In 1976, Jordan was the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention at which she nominated President Jimmy Carter. She became the first African American to give a keynote speech at a major party’s political convention.

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Angela Davis: Professor, Democratic Socialist, Prison Abolitionist

Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by Leshell Hatley.

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Angela Davis is a graduate studies professor emeritus of history of consciousness at the University of California and presidential chair at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She retired in the spring of 2008 and now works for racial, gender equality, gay rights, and prison abolition. Davis is a popular public speaker, nationally and internationally, and the founder of the grassroots prison-industrial complex-abolition organization Critical Resistance.

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