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Born in Houston in 1936. She attended Texas Southern University. She received a law degree from Boston university in 1956. She attened many public schools. She was one of 3 daughters. She grew up in the fifth ward. She taught in Tuskegee Institute for a year and  She got B.A in Political science and history. Sh ewas assitant to the judge. In 1960 she ran unsuccesfully for state office twice and she also tried registering black voters for the 60's presidential campaign.

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1959- Receive degree from Boston University

1960 - member of judiciary committee

1960's - Worked on JFK campaign

1960 - Opened law practice in Houston

1972 - faced Curtis Graves (another black legislator) during democratic primary

1972 - First African American from south to be elected for U.S. Congress

1972 - first person to serve as the governor for a day.

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Barbara Jordan is the first female to be honored with a statue on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin. She also attended public schools and taught in Tuskegee for a year. She was a member of the first debate team from an African-American university to compete in the forensic tournament held annually at Baylor University. In 1979, she became a professor at the Lyndon B.Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. She taught course, or intergovernmental relations , political values, and ethics.

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Barbara Jordan was a politician and an teacher. She was born in Houston on February 21, 1936. She attended Texas Southern University where she graduated. She had two sisters. She got her law degree from Boston University.

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She received a law degree. She was the first woman to be elected to Congress from the deep south since 1898. She was the first African american states the senator in Texas since the reconstruction period following the Civil War. She was the assistant of the county judge. She was an empowered woman, a woman who proved that anyone can do anything.

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In 1972 Jordan was elected to represent Texas Eighteenth District in the House of Representatives. Jordan took the primary 80 percent of the vote. She was the first black state senator since 1883. Her seating preference as well as her loyalty to the Texas delegation agitated fellow CBC members , but both were consistent with Jordan's  model of seeking congressional influence. She also gained the respect of her thirty white male colleges. In 1979 she became a professor at Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the university of Texas at Austin.

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She taught at the Tuskegee institute for a year.  After she retired from politics she accepted the Lyndon Baines Johnson Public Service Professorship at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. She taught courses on intergovernmental relations, political values, and ethics. In the early 1990s, she served as ethics advisor to Governor Ann Richards.

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She got a law degree in 1959 and then taught for a year. Later she started to resister black people for voting. She ran for office twice unsuccessfully. First move in congress was to establish relations with members of Texas delegations. She had strong institutional connections. She was the first African American representative to be elected to the U.S house of representatives from Texas.

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She was the youngest of three daughters.

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He dad was a graduate from Tuskegee institute

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She almost drowned at her home in 1988.