INSPIRATION IN THE VOICE, AND WORDS, OF GREAT STRENGTH.(LOCAL)

From: The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA) | Date: January 26, 1996 | Copyright information

Byline: Charlise Lyles

Lake Edward community activists were on a first-name basis with Barbara Jordan.

The way they talk about the former Texas congresswoman, who died last week, you'd think she had been a neighbor and civic group member.

Thursday evening, as some left townhouses or apartments in the beleaguered Virginia Beach housing development, heading to the monthly civic meeting, they remembered Jordan - one of the first two blacks elected to Congress from the South since Reconstruction.

They still hear that voice.

When Jordan spoke her booming, ...

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