George Henry White
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George Henry White was an American attorney and politician, elected as a Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina's 2nd congressional district between 1897 and 1901. He later became a banker in
Portrait by C. M. Bell c. 1897–1901
This portrait of George Henry White appeared in the NAACP monthly, The Crisis, shortly after his death.
Barbara Jordan
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Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician, attorney, and educator. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, the f
George Henry White
…office, no other African American served in Congress until 1929. No African American was elected to Congress again from a former Confederate state until Barbara Jordan's election in 1972, and there no African American was elected to Congress from North Carolina again until Eva Clayton in 1992. White was born in 1852…
Jordan, c. 1972–1978
Barbara Jordan delivering the keynote address before the 1976 Democratic National Convention
Jordan with President Gerald R. Ford at the Signing of H.R. 6219, Extending the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (1975)
Barbara Jordan's gravestone at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas