Reaching for power: Barbara C. Jordan and liberals in the Texas legislature, 1966-1972

Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 211-231

  Curtin, Mary Ellen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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References (45)

1. Walter Shapiro, "What Does This Woman Want," Texas Monthly (Oct., 1976), 134 (1st quotation)
2. Liz Carpenter, "Women Who Could Be President," Redbook (July, 1975)
3. "Barbara Jordan Could be President," Forward Times, June 17, 1972
4. Rose Blue, Barbara Jordan (New York: Chelsea House Publishing, 1992)
5. Diane Patrick-Wexler, Barbara Jordan (Milwaukee: Raintree/Steck Vaughn, 1995)
6. Joseph D. McNair, Barbara Jordan: African American Politician (Chanhassen, Minn.: Child's World, 2000)
7. Laura S. Jeffrey, Barbara Jordan: Congresswoman, Lawyer, Educator (Berkley Heights, N.J.: Enslow Publishers, 1997)
8. James Mendelsohn, Barbara Jordan: Getting Things Done (Breckinridge, Colo.: Twenty First Century Books, 2001)
9. Lisa R. Rhodes, Barbara Jordan: Voice of Democracy (London: Franklin Watts, 1998)
10. Mary Beth Rogers, Barbara Jordan: American Hero (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999), xi (2nd and 3rd quotations)
11. Lani Guinier, Tyranny of the Majority: Fundamental Fairness in Representative Democracy (New York: The Free Press, 1994), 14-15
12. Smith v. Allwright (321 U.S. 657) 1944
13. Darlene Clark Hine, Black Victory: The Rise and Fall of the White Primary in Texas (Millwood, N.Y.: KTO Press, 1979)
14. Chandler Davidson, Bi-Racial Coalitions: Conflict and Coalition in the Metropolitan South (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1972), 71
15. Chandler Davidson (ed.), Minority Vote Dilution (Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1989)
16. Chandler Davidson and Bernard Grofman (eds.), Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-1990 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994), 242-243
17. correspondence of Judge William Kilgarlin to the author. Mar. 11, 2002
18. Richard C. Cortner, The Apportionment Cases (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1970)
19. David E. Rosenbaum, "A Black Woman Keynoter: Barbara Charline Jordan," New York Times, July 13, 1976
20. Chandler Davidson, "Negro Politics and the Rise of the Civil Rights Movement in Houston, Texas" (Ph.d. diss., Princeton University, 1968), 170-172, 173 (quotation)
21. Thomas R. Cole, No Color is my Kind (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997), 24-35
22. Thomas Cole, "Curtis Graves Announces for State Legislature," Forward Times, Jan. 8, 1966
23. Bayard Rustin, "From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement," Commentary, 39 (Feb., 1965), 25-31
24. Jack Bass and Walter DeVries, The Transformation of Southern Politics: Social Change and Political Compromise Since 1945 (New York: Basic Books, 1976), 307 (quotation)
25. V. O. Key, Southern Politics in State and Nation (New York: Vintage Books, 1949)
26. Lawrence Goodwyn, Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976)
27. "Populist Dreams and Negro Rights: East Texas as a Case Study," American Historical Review, 76 (Dec., 1971), 1435-1456
28. Chandler Davidson, Race and Class in Texas Politics (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990), chapters 2 and 3
29. Correspondence of Judge William Kilgarlin to the author, Mar. 27, 2002
30. Harris County Council of Organizations, "Profile of the Houston Negro Community with Special Tribute to Barbara Jordan," p. 3
31. "Texas Liberal Democrats Organize," Texas Observer, Nov. 12, 1965
32. John Doar in Forward Times, Jan. 15, 1966
33. Dwight David Watson, "A Change Did Come: The Transformation of the Houston Police Department, 1930 through 1984" (Ph.D. diss., University of Houston, 1999)
34. Oscar Mauzy in the Texas Observer, Nov. 3, 1972, "A Profile of Barbara Jordan" (1st quotation)
35. Quentin Mease, interview with the Author, Mar. 2001
36. Barbara Jordan, "How I Got There: Staying Power," Atlantic Monthly (Mar., 1975), 39 (1st quotation)
37. "Senator Jordan: Even as Little Girl She was One of the Rare Ones," Houston Chronicle, Nov. 30, 1969
38. "Senate Mixture Hints Explosive Session," Houston Chronicle, Nov. 9, 1966 (1st quotation)
39. William Broyles Jr., "Voice of Reason," Texas Monthly (Feb., 1993), 198
40. "Rep. Frances Farenthold: A Melancholy Rebel," Texas Observer, Apr. 9, 1971 (2nd quotation)
41. Bob Eckhardt died November 13, 2001. Obituary, Austin American Statesman, Nov. 15, 2001
42. Robert A. Caro, The Path To Power (New York: Vintage Books, 1982), 219-220
43. Shirley Chisholm, Unbought and Unbossed (New York: Avon Books, 1970), 125
44. Molly Ivins, "A Profile of Barbara Jordan," Texas Observer, Nov. 3, 1972 (3rd quotation)
45. Anne Phillips, The Politics of Presence (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995), 24-25 (1st and 2nd quotations)