Title: What do you do with a voice like that?
Description: Even as a child growing up in the Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas, Barbara Jordan stood out for her big, bold, booming, crisp, clear, confident voice. It was a voice that made people sit up, stand up, and take notice.  So what do you do with a voice like that?
Subjects: Politics and government, Legislators, African American women legislators, United States, United States. Congress. House, Juvenile literature, Biography, United states, congress, senate, biography, Legislators, united states, African americans, biography, African americans, biography, juvenile literature, Texas, history, Texas, juvenile literature
Places: United States, Texas
People: Barbara Jordan (1936-1996)
Time periods: 1951-