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Barbara Jordan
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Barbara Jordan
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 18th district
In office January 3, 1973 January 3, 1979
Preceded by Bob Price
Succeeded by Mickey Leland
Member of the Texas Senate from the 11th district
In office 19671973
Preceded by William T. "Bill" Moore
Succeeded by Chet Brooks
Personal details
Born Barbara Charline Jordan
February 21, 1936
Houston, Texas, U.S.
Died January 17, 1996 (aged 59)
Austin, Texas, U.S.
Resting place Texas State Cemetery
Political party Democratic
Alma mater Texas Southern University
Boston University
Profession Attorney
Religion Baptist
Barbara Charline Jordan (February 21, 1936 January 17, 1996) was an American politician and a leader of the Civil Rights movement. A Democrat, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives, and the first African-American woman to deliver the keynote address at a 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.[1] On her death, she became the first African-American woman to be buried in the Texas State Cemetery.[2]
merrily
(45,251 posts)a great suffragette or a great female politician would be my pick It has to be someone deceased as well. So,, Jordan fits my wish list.
Why a female politician and not just a suffragette? How many female politicians were there before women got the vote?
Romeo.lima333
(1,127 posts)marble falls
(57,204 posts)safeinOhio
(32,715 posts)Depaysement
(1,835 posts)Sojourner Truth
Susan B. Anthony
canoeist52
(2,282 posts)I bet Mrs. Roosevelt would be turning in her grave to think that her face would have the dubious honor of being plastered on our paper money.
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A Ferengi without profit is no Ferengi at all. etc....
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Other than the jesus-wheezing that seems to be it.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)France put Moliere on banknotes; Germany and Austria had banknotes with Mozart on them. Barbara Jordan would be a good choice but I could get behind seeing Sarah Vaughan (imo the greatest jazz singer of all) or Joyce Carol Oates (if she were dead). I'd like to see the pool of candidates extended to women who have had an impact on American society as a whole, instead of just the political arena.
marble falls
(57,204 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)whose monumentally influential book Silent Spring is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago?
marble falls
(57,204 posts)JEB
(4,748 posts)struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)She was one of the great orators of the Twentieth Century. If there were a god, she would sound just the way Barbara Jordan did.
marble falls
(57,204 posts)members of the House. She definitely had the most heart. I believe she could have been a good "American" President.
Tanuki
(14,920 posts)..."Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880[1][2] May 14, 1965) was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt, she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. She and Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes were the only original members of the Roosevelt cabinet to remain in office for his entire presidency.
During her term as Secretary of Labor, Perkins executed many aspects of the New Deal, including the Civilian Conservation Corps, the Public Works Administration and its successor the Federal Works Agency, and the labor portion of the National Industrial Recovery Act. With the Social Security Act she established unemployment benefits, pensions for the many uncovered elderly Americans, and welfare for the poorest Americans. She pushed to reduce workplace accidents and helped craft laws against child labor. Through the Fair Labor Standards Act, she established the first minimum wage and overtime laws for American workers, and defined the standard forty-hour work week." more at link)
marble falls
(57,204 posts)femmocrat
(28,394 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Entwhistle? Moon?
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Buns_of_Fire
(17,194 posts)Not all on the same bill, of course. But surely we have the technology. After all, it's not as if one plant doesn't print anything but one-dollar bills and another plant print nothing but five-dollar bills and yet another print only tens. (Is it?)
Nice thing is, should the Treasury ever decide to print three-dollar bills, they could swap out between Saint Reagan and G.W. Shit-fer-Brains.
roamer65
(36,747 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)Her work with the Underground Railroad demands it.
marble falls
(57,204 posts)as well as Jordan.
Warpy
(111,339 posts)I have no objection to Barbara Jordan, I remember her very fondly. However, she needs to go on the $20, get rid of Andrew Jackson. That murderous fool has polluted our money too damn long.
marble falls
(57,204 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Susan Anthony.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,337 posts)lamp_shade
(14,841 posts)truebrit71
(20,805 posts)...
oberliner
(58,724 posts)He absolutely should not have his image taken off the $10 bill.
The $20 is the one that should be changed. Andrew Jackson ought to be replaced, not Hamilton.
voteearlyvoteoften
(1,716 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)although admittedly it didn't circulate too well.
boston bean
(36,223 posts)I think it will be Alice Paul.
She pulled it across the finish line, lived to see its passage and continued to work on the ERA.
madokie
(51,076 posts)possibly rotating between several of the un appreciated women in our history.
EEO
(1,620 posts)marble falls
(57,204 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)Both certainly deserve it, along with many more women from our history.
cry baby
(6,682 posts)damnedifIknow
(3,183 posts)Well sorry I look spiffy in green
Cheese Sandwich
(9,086 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gurley_Flynn
Not that she would want to be on it.
I'd also like to see
Nat Turner on the $1 bill instead of George Washington
Frederick Douglass on the $5 bill
One_Life_To_Give
(6,036 posts)As she is likely a composite of all the women who fought in the Revolutionary War.