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“Come now, let us reason together:” Barbara Jordan’s Keynote Address 

By Jacob King Congresswoman Barbara Jordan delivers a rousing message at the National Women’s Conference in 1977, flanked to her right by Bella Abzug and Rosalyn Carter. Photo by Dorothy Marder, courtesy of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.  On November 19, 1977, in Houston, Texas, U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan (D-TX) approached the National Women’s Conference […]

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