The back matter for What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? The Story of Extraordinary Congresswoman Barbara Jordan will include a two-page timeline, my author’s note, Ekua Holmes’ illustrator’s note, and suggestions for viewing, listening, and further reading.

With all this material that Beach Lane Books/Simon & Schuster does include in those final pages, there wasn’t room to also include a bibliography of the sources I found most helpful in writing the text for the book.

So, I’m presenting them here, and the book includes the URL for the What Do You Do with a Voice Like That? page on my website, which in turn links to this post.

Ackerman, Todd. “TSU remembers famous alumna,” Houston Chronicle, January 18, 1996.

“Barbara Charline Jordan, February 21, 1936 – January 17, 1996,” Houston Chronicle, January 19, 1996.

“Barbara Jordan: American Hero”: Speech. Interview with Mary Beth Rogers. C-SPAN, January 24, 1999.

“Barbara Jordan wills her estate to sisters, friend and mother,” Jet, February 12, 1996.

Baxter, Norman. “Jordan to quit Congress,” Houston Chronicle, December 11, 1977.

Baxter, Norman. “Rep. Jordan expected to announce that she won’t run for re-election,” Houston Chronicle, December 9, 1977.

Bernstein, Alan. “Admirers share their many memories,” Houston Chronicle, January 21, 1996.

Bernstein, Alan. “Ethical ideas won respect,” Houston Chronicle, January 18, 1996.

Bernstein, Alan. “Supreme Court may undermine Jordan’s legacy,” Houston Chronicle, January 21, 1996.

Bowers, Molly. “Attorney Advocates Effective Use of Ballot,” The Houston Post, August 28, 1963.

Broyles, William. “The Making of Barbara Jordan,” Texas Monthly, October 1976.

Bryant, Ira B. Barbara Charline Jordan: From the Ghetto to the Capitol. Houston: D. Armstrong Co., Inc., 1977.

Burka, Paul. “Major Barbara,” Texas Monthly, March 1996.

“Camera Highlights from Phillis Wheatley High School, Houston, Texas,” The Texas Standard, March-April 1951.

Campbell, Brett. “More than a Voice: Barbara Jordan, the Teacher,” American Educator, Spring 1996.

Chaze, William L. “Barbara Jordan: A little dramatic, a little aloof, a lot of clout,” The Dallas Times Herald, July 11, 1976.

Clines, Francis X. “Barbara Jordan: Bold voice behind U.S. Constitution in Congress, classroom,” The New York Times, January 18, 1996.

Cox, Wayne. “Houston Liberal Legislator Visits,” San Antonio Express, October 6, 1966.

Dworin, Diana. “UT bids fond farewell to Jordan,” Austin American-Statesman, January 20, 1996.

Dyer, R.A. “The Fifth Ward: ‘We don’t get them like Barbara Jordan often,'” Houston Chronicle, January 21, 1996.

Eskenazi, Stuart. “Her inspiration reached far beyond native Texas,” Austin American-Statesman, January 18, 1996.

“Eulogy,” Houston Chronicle, January 18, 1996.

Fenno, Richard F. Going Home: Black Representatives and Their Constituents. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003.

Franks, Zarko. “Sen. Jordan: Even as Little Girl She Was One of the Rare Ones,” Houston Chronicle, November 30, 1969.

“From 5th Ward to 93rd Congress,” Houston Chronicle, January 18, 1996.

Harmon, Dave. “Jordan’s legacy gains and gives strength,” Austin American-Statesman, January 19, 1996.

Harmon, Dave. “Paying tribute amid the morning mist,” Austin American-Statesman, January 21, 1996.

Haskins, James. Barbara Jordan. New York: The Dial Press, 1977.

Hines, Cragg. “A voice for justice dies,” Houston Chronicle, January 18, 1996.

Herrera, Clara G. “City homeless to get a hand from Jordan,” Austin American-Statesman, January 25, 1988.

Hine, Darlene Clark, editor. Black Women in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Hiott, Debbie. “Hundreds visit coffin, bid farewell to Jordan,” Austin American-Statesman, January 19, 1996.

Holmes, Barbara A. A Private Woman in Public Spaces: Barbara Jordan’s Speeches on Ethics, Public Religion, and Law. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Trinity Press International, 2000.

“In her own words,” Houston Chronicle, January 18, 1996.

Ivins, Molly. “A profile of Barbara Jordan,” The Texas Observer, November 3, 1972.

Jayson, Sharon. “Pupils told to reap rewards of education,” Austin American-Statesman, January 18, 1996.

Jones, Nancy Baker and Ruthe Winegarten. Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators, 1923-1999. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2000.

Jordan, Barbara. “Is the Necessity for a Higher Education More in Demand Today Than a Decade Ago?” Essay. 1952.

Jordan, Barbara and Shelby Hearon. Barbara Jordan: A Self-Portrait. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1979.

“Jordan Discusses Re-Districting: Reapportionment Aids Liberals,” The Rice Thresher, October 14, 1965.

“Jordan recovering after near-drowning,” The Record, August 1, 1988.

Kelley, Mike. “Jordan’s legacy extolled by colleagues,” Austin American-Statesman, January 20, 1996.

Kleiner, Diana J. “Fifth Ward, Houston,” Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association. Available at http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hpfhk. Accessed May 28, 2018.

Laville, Helen, and Scott Lucas. “The American Way: Edith Sampson, the NAACP, and African American Identity in the Cold War,” Diplomatic History, October 1996.

Lee, Larry. “Black Houston,” The Texas Observer, May 13, 1966.

Lindell, Chuck. “For some blacks, Jordan leaves ambiguous legacy,” Austin American-Statesman, January 18, 1996.

Lum, Lydia. “Massive crowd honors woman ‘who made it,'” Houston Chronicle, January 20, 1996.

Lutz, Mike. “Jordan won’t seek 4th term in Congress,” The Denton Record-Chronicle, December 11, 1977.

Makeig, John, and Jerry Urban. “Fifth Ward full of memories, sad reminders,” Houston Chronicle, January 18, 1996.

Marcello, Ronald E. “Interview with Senator Barbara Jordan,” transcript of an oral history conducted on July 7, 1970, by Ronald E. Marcello, North Texas State University Oral History Collection.

Marshall, Thom. “The whole truth and nothing but,” Houston Chronicle, January 21, 1996.

Mathis, Nancy. “The White House: ‘She trotted her horse, made a path wide, deep,'” Houston Chronicle, January 21, 1996.

“Milestones,” Austin American-Statesman, January 18, 1996.

Miller, Char, editor. Fifty Years of the Texas Observer. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 2004.

Milling, T.J. “She had ‘too short of a lifetime,'” Houston Chronicle, January 21, 1996.

Morris, Anne. “Jordan on Jordan,” Austin American-Statesman, January 18, 1996.

Moss, J. Jennings. “Barbara Jordan: The other life,” The Advocate, March 5, 1996.

“New Phillis Wheatley Senior High School to Open,” The Texas Standard, September-October 1950.

Nocera, Joseph. “The Failure of Barbara Jordan’s Success,” The Washington Monthly, March 1979.

“Overview: Texas Senate Districts 1846-1982,” Texas Legislative Council. Available at https://redistricting.capitol.texas.gov/history#overviews-section. Accessed June 16, 2020.

Palomo, Juan R. “Barbara Jordan honored by a president, the people,” Austin American-Statesman, January 21, 1996.

Palomo, Juan R., and David Harmon. “Houston’s Fifth Ward, Texas Southern feel loss in special way,” Austin American-Statesman, January 18, 1996.

Palomo, Juan R. “Jordan remembered as woman who practiced what she preached,” Austin American-Statesman, January 19, 1996.

Pando, Patricia. “In the Nickel, Houston’s Fifth Ward,” Houston History. Available at http://houstonhistorymagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Fifth-Ward.pdf. Accessed May 28, 2018.

Phelan, Charlotte. “State Sen Barbara Jordan wins her battles through ‘the system,'” The Houston Post, May 24, 1970.

Pierce, Paula Jo. Let Me Tell You What I’ve Learned: Texas Wisewomen Speak. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2002.

Rodriguez, Lori. “‘For all she meant to us,'” Houston Chronicle, January 20, 1996.

Rogers, Mary Beth. Barbara Jordan: American Hero. New York: Bantam Books, 1998.

Roser, Mary Ann. “Jordan lent spark to UT,” Austin American-Statesman, January 18, 1996.

Sherman, Max, editor. Barbara Jordan: Speaking the Truth with Eloquent Thunder. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2007.

Tolson, Mike. “Praise and Prayer: Friends say farewell to Barbara Jordan,” Houston Chronicle, January 21, 1996.

“T.S.U. Debaters Beat Harvard,” The Houston Chronicle, April 5, 1956.

Turner, Allan. “Mourners recall woman who made difference,” Houston Chronicle, January 19, 1996.

Tutt, Bob. “Priceless gift: inspiration,” Houston Chronicle, January 18, 1996.

U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, Societal and Legal Issues Surrounding Children Born in the United States to Illegal Alien Parents. Joint Hearing on H.R. 705, H.R. 363, H.J. Res. 56, H.J. Res 64, H.J. Res. 87, H.J. Res 88, and H.J. Res. 93 before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims and the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, 104th Congress, 1st session, December 13, 1995.

Various items in Congresswoman Barbara Jordan Papers, Robert J. Terry Library, Texas Southern University.

Walls, Ellie A. “Executing the Guidance Program in a Large High School,” The Texas Standard, September-October 1949.

Walt, Kathy. “Blazing trails even in her death,” Houston Chronicle, January 21, 1996.

Walt, Kathy. “Justice, ethics Jordan embodied remain with students, colleagues,” Houston Chronicle, January 18, 1996.

West, Richard. “Only the Strong Survive,” Texas Monthly, February 1979.

Wheelock, Ernestine. “Dream Comes True For Young Senator,” Austin American-Statesman, January 22, 1967.

“When Barbara Jordan spoke to you, you knew you had been spoke at,” Austin American-Statesman, January 18, 1996.

Winegarten, Ruthe. Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 1995.

Woodfin, Max, Ben Barnes, and Rodney Ellis. “Three among many lives Jordan touched,” Austin American-Statesman, January 20, 1996.

Interviews
The Honorable Carlos H. Barrera, March 2, 2016.
Courtney Brown, March 14, 2016.
Dr. Thomas F. Freeman, December 2, 2015.
Rose Mary McGowan, December 2, 2015.
Karen Neuwald, February 24, 2016.
Amy Praskac, March 4, 2016.
Max Sherman, March 25, 2016.