Of course, Jordan came to the House in 1973 with certain advantages. Her reputation as the first black woman elected to Congress from the South preceded her. And while there were dozens of look-alike white male freshmen, no one was likely to confuse Barbara Jordan with anyone else. Still, it was another black woman Yvonne Braithwaite Burke of Los Angeles who was singled out as the real star; Burke had been temporary chairman of the 1972 Democratic Convention and her picture, not Jordan’s, dominated the women’s pages. Burke and Jordan were the two fledgling Democrats singled out by the Kennedy Institute at Harvard to attend a special month-long seminar just before they took office (William Cohen of Maine and Alan Steelman of Texas were the Republicans). Not once during that month did the two black women discuss any unique problems they might encounter in an overwhelmingly white male institution.
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Letters to the Editor - Student protests, Vic Colon, Alan Steelman, Aaron Rodgers, remembering drugstores in South Dallas
Readers talk about student protests, loved the story about the mayor of Lovers Lane, lament the lack of politicians like Alan Steelman, ask about the Cowboys taking Aaron Rodgers and reminisce about the drug stores of days gone by.
The van once used by former Congressman Alan Steelman.(Alan Steelman)
Learn from the tragedies
On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guard soldiers fired 67 shots into a crowd of student anti-war protesters at Kent State University, killing four and wounding 13 others, with one left paralyzed as a result of his injuries. Students had been protesting President Richard Nixon’s announcement that the U.S. had secretly been bombing neutral Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
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Nearly two dozen former Republican lawmakers are calling for their current party members to support the impeachment of President Trump.
Twenty-two former Republican members of Congress wrote a letter to current GOP lawmakers on Monday saying that supporting the removal of the president would fulfill your constitutional duty to uphold the integrity of the legislative branch and protect American democracy.
The latest impeachment push comes days after the president encouraged his supporters to intimidate lawmakers into overturning the election. The supporters stormed the Capitol, and pandemonium ensued. There were five deaths, a lockdown of the Capitol, and dozens of arrests, but it only temporarily halted Congress before it certified the Electoral College votes for President-elect Joe Biden.