Texas dedicates the Barbara Jordan Building to the Fifth Ward legend who became the first...
Barbara Jordan's 90-year-old sister, Rose Mary McGowan , and a young cousin, Eden White, were among those at the ceremony Monday as Texas opened the new Barbara Jordan Building in the Texas Capitol Mall. It's the first building named after any Black Texan in the State Capitol Complex. Jordan, a national civil rights icon, was the first Black woman elected to the Texas Senate, among other firsts.
The state this week opened a new $260 million 12-story building within view of the Texas Capitol named for the Fifth Ward resident who in 1966 becameThe building, which will house the Texas Department of Insurance, is the first named after any Black Texan around the State Capitol Complex. “We’re here to honor a woman who throughout her life and even in her death lived in a way that she’s still the first in so many areas,” the Rev. D. Z. Cofield, senior pastor at Houston's Good Hope Missionary Baptist Church, told a crowd of several hundred at a ceremony in Austin on Monday. “How do you have a building named after you 27 years after you’ve passed? I think the answer is very simple: by living your life in a way that outlives your life.
I just arrived at the unveiling of the new Barbara Jordan Building in Austin just blocks from the Texas Capitol where she shattered so many barriers in becoming the 1st Black woman to ever serve in the Texas Senate.
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