Barbara Jordan : speaking the truth with eloquent thunder / edited by Max Sherman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996.

Contributor:

Sherman, Max R.

Smith, Anna Deveare, narrator.

Garza, Daniel, editor.

University of Texas at Austin, producer.

Henson, Jim, producer.

Series:

Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; bk. 15.

Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; bk. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Politics and government--1974-1977.

United States.

Politics and government.

United States--Politics and government--1977-1981.

United States--Politics and government--1981-1989.

United States--Politics and government--1989-.

Civil rights--United States.

Civil rights.

Political ethics--United States.

Political ethics.

Democracy--United States.

Democracy.

Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996.

Jordan, Barbara.

Speeches, addresses, etc., American.

Physical Description:

xii, 96 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm + 1 DVD (sound, black and white & color ; 4 3/4 in.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2007.

System Details:

Accompanying DVD playable on NTSC players.

Summary:

Accompanying DVD, entitled Barbara Jordan : Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder, contains excerpts from some of Congresswoman Jordan's speeches, read by herself or by Anna Deveare Smith.

Contents:

Biography of Barbara Jordan, with student comments

My personal introduction of Barbara Jordan

Erosion of civil liberties : commencement speech, Howard University, May 11, 1974

The national political stage : rising to the occasion : the constitutional basis for impeachment, U.S. House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings, July 25, 1974

Center stage : Democratic National Convention keynote address, July 12, 1976

The spotlight after Congress : Democratic National Convention keynote address, July 13, 1992

Barbara Jordan's take on three twenty-first-century political issues : confirmation of Supreme Court Justices : testimony in opposition to the nomination of Robert Bork, September 17, 1987

Immigration reform : congressional testimony as chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, March 29, 1995

Religious faith and politics : prayer at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 2, 1978; address at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 2, 1984

The Sylvanus Thayer Award : unswerving dedication to principle : 1995 Sylvanus Thayer Award citation, West Point, October 5; Barbara Jordan's Thayer Award acceptance

Epilogue : remarks of Bill Moyers at the memorial service for Barbara Jordan, University of Texas at Austin, January 28, 1996.

Notes:

Accompanying DVD produced by Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Services, UT-Austin and by James Henson; video edited by Daniel Garza.

Includes bibliographical references (page [97]).

Contains:

Barbara Jordan

ISBN:

9780292716377

0292716370

OCLC:

70045782

Online:

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