Jordan was a person with MS who was a widely admired congresswoman, lawyer, professor and great civil rights champion. From her beginnings in Houston, she blazed a trail as the first Black woman ever elected to Congress from the South, with a commanding voice that captivated the nation during the televised Watergate investigations. After politics, she taught at the University of Texas for most of her life, 1936-1996.

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