smalldarlinglesbian:Lesbian History:Barbara JordanFebruary 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) USAwas a law
smalldarlinglesbian:Lesbian History:Barbara JordanFebruary 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996) USAwas a lawyer, educator, an American politician, and a leader of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, the first Southern African-American female elected to the United States House of Representatives, the first known lesbian elected to the United States Congress (though this was not known to the public during her tenure), and the first African-American woman to deliver a keynote address at a Democratic National Convention. Jordan’s partner of approximately thirty years was Nancy Earl, an educational psychologist, whom she met on a camping trip in the late 1960s. -- source link