Eckert Seamans history

Jordan went on to law school at Boston University, earning her juris doctorate in 1959.

Jordan taught at the Tuskegee Institute the year she earned her law degree and returned to Houston in 1960, where she opened a private law practice.

She began her political career in 1962 when she campaigned for the Texas House of Representatives, which ultimately proved unsuccessful.

She supported the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as well as its expansion that protected the rights of Hispanics in Texas, which was opposed at the time by Governor Dolph Briscoe and Secretary of State Mark White.

Jordan’s political career continued in 1972 when she was elected to the United States House of Representatives, becoming the first woman elected in their own right to do so.

In 1973, she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and continued her political career while battling the disease in silence.

Jordan became the first Black woman to deliver a keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in 1976, garnering attention as a potential running mate to Jimmy Carter.

She died of pneumonia that developed as a complication of leukemia on January 17, 1996, in Austin, Texas.

Bolin passed away on January 8, 2007 in Long Island City Queens when she was 98 years old and is interred at the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery.