A dramatic portrait of Barbara Jordan, the first African American
congresswoman to be elected from the Deep South. The play follows
Jordan from her childhood in Houston's Fifth Ward through her
receiving the Medal of Freedom from President Bill Clinton, and deals
with her pivotal role on the House Judiciary Committee during its
hearings concerning the possible impeachment of President Richard
Nixon, her complex political relationship with Texas power broker
Robert Strauss, her struggle with muscular dystrophy, and her
twenty-year relationship with Nancy Earl, her companion and occasional
speechwriter, and ultimately her caregiver. The play premiered at
Victory Gardens Theater in 2000 and has been produced from New York to
San Francisco in the years since then.
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