Barbara Jordan's 1976 DNC Keynote: Because history matters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg7gLIx__-k …
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B. Jordan: "This is the great danger America faces -- that we will cease to be one nation & become instead a collection of interest groups."
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"We as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation." - Barbara Jordan, 1976pic.twitter.com/7IIigtGC3n
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"Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy." - B. Jordan
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Jordan was 40, "the first black ever to address a national convention as a keynote speaker," as the announcer says.pic.twitter.com/DWhC4mWLJA
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Again, here's the speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg7gLIx__-k … / Here's the text: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/barbarajordan1976dnc.html …
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I get very sad when I think about the fact that I will never get to interview a Barbara Jordan.
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