TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rogers,Mary Beth
TI  - Barbara Jordan: American hero 
SN  - 0553380664 : PAP
AV  - E840.8.J62 R63 2000
U1  - 328.73/092 
PY  - 2000///, c1998
CY  - New York
PB  - Bantam Books
KW  - Jordan, Barbara,
KW  - United States
KW  - Congress
KW  - House
KW  - Biography
KW  - Afro-American women legislators
KW  - Legislators
N1  - Reprint. Originally published: 1998; Includes bibliographical references (p. [394]-398) and index
N2  - A portrait of the first black woman elected to the Texas Senate and the U.S. Congress details her rise from Houston's Fifth Ward to influential political leader, and her decision to become a teacher
ER  -