Trees Planted by the Water: Early African American Legislators
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Trees Planted by the Water: Early African American Legislators |
| Barbara Jordan - Standing on Solid Ground In 1967 she was elected to a seat in the Texas Senate, where she was the first black state senator since 1883. She was the first black woman from a Southern state to serve in Congress, and, with Andrew Young, was the first of two African Americans to be elected to Congress from the South in the twentieth century. |
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Texas African American
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Forever Free 19th Century African-American Legislators and Delegates
List of Delegates to the Reconstruction Convention
Black Lawmakers and the Establishment of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
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