{"id":12563,"date":"2011-01-24T13:40:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T18:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/12563\/heros-barbara-jordan\/"},"modified":"2011-01-24T13:40:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T18:40:02","slug":"heros-barbara-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/12563\/heros-barbara-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"My Heros &#8211; Barbara Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Jordan (February 21, 1936 \u2013 January 17, 1996) was the first African-American woman elected to the US House of Representatives from a Southern State.  She was a progressive and a very powerful speaker.<\/p>\n<p>In 1976, she was chosen to be the keynote speaker at the Democratic Convention.  It is considered to be Number 5 in the top 100 of all speeches in the 20<sup>th<\/sup> Century.<\/p>\n<p>In that speech she said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a people in a quandary about the present.  We are a people in search of our future.  We are a people in search of a national community.<\/p>\n<p>We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present:  unemployment, inflation but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.  We are attempting to fulfill our national purpose, to create and sustain a society in which all of us are equal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those words are as true today as they were in 1976.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Jordan (February 21, 1936 \u2013 January 17, 1996) was the first African-American woman elected to the US House of Representatives from a Southern State. She was a progressive and a very powerful speaker. In 1976, she was chosen to be the keynote speaker at the Democratic Convention. It is considered to be Number 5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1428],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}