[Letter from Clarence Calloway to Barbara Jordan, September 6]

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Letter from Clarence Calloway to Congresswoman Barbara Jordan asking her to come to the new King State Bank, in order to "cut the ribbon on September 5th or 12th - Friday morning." Calloway explains the importance of the bank in that it is the first to have a "black, qualified president."

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[2] p. ; 22 cm.

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Calloway, Clarence 197X-09-06.

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Letter from Clarence Calloway to Congresswoman Barbara Jordan asking her to come to the new King State Bank, in order to "cut the ribbon on September 5th or 12th - Friday morning." Calloway explains the importance of the bank in that it is the first to have a "black, qualified president."

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[2] p. ; 22 cm.

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The Barbara C. Jordan Archives

Photographs from the Barbara C. Jordan Archives. Barbara Jordan ran for the Texas House twice (1962, 1964). She won a seat in the Texas Senate in 1966, becoming the first African American since Reconstruction to do so.

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  • 197X-09-06

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Calloway, Clarence. [Letter from Clarence Calloway to Barbara Jordan, September 6], letter, 197X-09-06; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth843240/: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas Southern University.

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