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Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum

Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum

LBJ Library: LBJ Presidential Library

Located in the LBJ School of Public Affairs Campus. Visited 27 August 2018.

More pictures from the LBJ School of Public Affairs Campus, including the LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections. Visited January 9 2020.

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"We, the people. It's a very eloquent beginning. But when that document was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787, I was not included in that 'We, the people.' I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in We, the people. Today I am an inquisitor. An hyperbole would not be fictional and would not overstate the solemnness that I feel right now. My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. And I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the Constitution." --from Barbara Jordan's opening remarks to the House Judiciary Committee on July 24, 1974, regarding the impeachment of Richard Nixon

Today, June 1, kicks off Pride Month (and also incidentally marks the third anniversary of the start of this series), and I thought it appropriate to examine the amazing accomplishments of Texas civil rights leader, attorney, and Congresswoman Barbara Charline Jordan.

Born in a poor Houston neighborhood in 1936, Jordan discovered an early aptitude for languages and oration, and also debate. She graduated from Texas Southern University in 1956, then obtained her LL.B. from Boston University School of Law in 1959. She was admitted to both the Massachusetts and Texas bars in 1960, then began practicing law in Houston --at the time only the third African American woman to be so licensed. An outspoken supporter of John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign, she herself entered politics and unsuccessfully ran for state representative in 1962 and again in 1964. Two years later her fortunes changed, however, and in 1966 she became the first African American elected to the Texas Senate in 1966.

Jordan's standing as a fellow Texan Democrat endeared her to then-President Lyndon Johnson and in many respects she became LBJ's protégée. In 1972 Jordan ran for Congress for Texas's 18th District, and unseated the incumbent Republican, becoming the first woman --of any race-- elected to Congress from that state.

Jordan's political career accomplishments extend far beyond this biography's available space, but among the high points include her aggressive sponsorship of the Voting Rights Act of 1975 (an extension of the more famous 1965 measure), and the Equal Rights Amendment in 1977. Also significantly she served on the House Judiciary Committee during the Nixon impeachment hearings, and her speech at the 1976 Democratic National Convention is widely regarded as one of the best keynote speeches in modern history; her presence in many ways even eclipsing that of the party's nominee, Jimmy Carter. (She would return as a keynote speaker for the 1992 Democratic National Convention.)

Jordan retired from politics in 1978 and became a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas in Austin. In 1993 Jordan was the first recipient of the Nelson Mandela Award for Health and Human Rights. A year later she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton for her trailblazing work. That same year Jordan was also named the chair of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform. Jordan died from complications from pneumonia in January of 1996, and is buried at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin --significantly breaking barriers even in death as the first-ever black woman to be interred there. While Jordan never explicitly acknowledged her personal sexual orientation in public, she was open about her life partner of nearly 30 years, educational psychologist Nancy Earl.

Her legacy continues through the Jordan Rustin Coalition (named for her and for Civil Rights organizer Bayard Rustin --see Lesson #05 in this series): a non-profit advocacy group working to empower Black same-gender loving, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals and families; and to promote equal marriage rights and to advocate for fair treatment of everyone without regard to race, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

Full text of Jordan's July 24, 1974 remarks: https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/impeachment/my-faith-constitution-whole-it-complete-it-total

A truly absorbing 1976 article about Jordan's life and career by William Broyles, indexed at: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/the-making-of-barbara-jordan-2/

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Willie Nelson's 90th birthday concerts getting a theatrical release

NASHVILLE, Tennessee

If you missed out on Willie Nelson's 90th birthday concerts last month in Los Angeles, you can see all the special performances honoring the 12-time Grammy winner in a limited theatrical run.

“Long Story Short: Willie Nelson 90” will be shown in theaters on June 11, with an encore presentation on June 13 and 14. Recorded at the Hollywood Bowl over two nights in April, the concert film will include performances by Nelson, Keith Richards, Neil Young, George Strait

, Miranda Lambert, Snoop Dogg and many more.

Nelson, who was also inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year, is having a banner year as a nonagenarian. He was honored with an educational endowment at the University of Texas’ LBJ School of Public Affairs and will have a new book about his songwriting called “Energy Follows Thought: The Stories Behind My Songs,” coming out on Oct. 31 through William Morrow.

The Texas actor, activist and songwriter penned hits like “Crazy,” “Funny How Times Slips Away” and “On the Road Again" over his seven-decade career, as well as co-founded Farm Aid.

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Willie Nelson to Receive LBJ Liberty & Justice for All Award

- Willie Nelson Endowment for Uplifting Rural Communities also established

Willie Nelson is set to receive the LBJ Liberty & Justice for All award.

It’s the highest honor given by the LBJ Foundation, which is also establishing the Willie Nelson Endowment for Uplifting Rural Communities at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.

The endowment will fund programs devoted to sustainable agriculture and water; eliminating hunger; resilient energy; and natural disaster recovery.

Established in 2010, the Liberty & Justice award honors those who carry on President Johnson’s “commitment to public service and access and equality for all Americans,” per a news release.

“Willie Nelson is a deserving recipient,” the foundation said of the musician and Farm Aid co-founder.

“Throughout his career, Willie has remained passionately committed to using his musical talent to assist people affected by natural disasters, to address global food insecurity and to support sustainable agriculture.”

The award ceremony is scheduled for May 12 at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin.

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Opinion: This enduring crime continues to haunt America's efforts for racial justice

Editor’s Note: Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan chair in ethics and political values and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a professor of history. He is the author of “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.” The views…

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Opinion: This enduring crime continues to haunt America's efforts for racial justice

Editor’s Note: Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan chair in ethics and political values and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a professor of history. He is the author of “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.” The views…

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Opinion: How 'The 1619 Project' reveals democracy's only hope for the future

Editor’s Note: Peniel E. Joseph is Barbara Jordan chair in ethics and political values and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a professor of history. He is the author of “The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century.” The views…

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Stacey Yvonne Abrams (born December 9, 1973) is a politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she founded Fair Fight Action, an organization to address voter suppression, in 2018. A voting rights activist, her efforts have been credited with boosting voter turnout in Georgia, including in the 2020 presidential election, where Joe Biden narrowly won the state, and in Georgia's 2020–2021 Senate election and special election, which gave Democrats control over the Senate. She was the Democratic nominee in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election, becoming the first African-American female major-party gubernatorial nominee in the US. She lost to Brian Kemp in an election marked by accusations that Kemp engaged in voter suppression as Georgia's Secretary of State. In February 2019, she became the first African-American woman to deliver a response to the State of the Union address. On December 1, 2021, she announced she would run for governor again in the 2022 Georgia gubernatorial election. She was the Democratic nominee in the 2022 Georgia gubernatorial election, and lost again to Kemp; she conceded on the night of the election. She has found success as an author of both fiction and nonfiction. Her nonfiction books, Our Time Is Now and Lead from the Outside were New York Times bestsellers. Outside of politics, she has published eight fiction books, using the pen name Selena Montgomery until 2021. Her latest work of fiction, While Justice Sleeps, was released on May 11, 2021, under her real name. She earned a BA in interdisciplinary studies (Political Science, Economics, and Sociology) from Spelman College, magna cum laude. As a Harry S. Truman Scholar, she studied public policy at the University of Texas at Austin's LBJ School of Public Affairs, where she earned an MPA. She earned a JD from Yale Law School. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #deltasigmatheta https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl8o7kbLSuZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Hillary Clinton Honored with Inaugural "In the Arena Award" at the LBJ School

Hillary Clinton Honored with Inaugural “In the Arena Award” at the LBJ School

Tuesday evening, Hillary Clinton received the inaugural In the Arena Award at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. Congratulations, Mme. Secretary! So appropriate and well-deserved!

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LBJ School Honors Hillary Rodham Clinton with Inaugural IN THE ARENA Award | LBJ School of Public Affairs 7-9 minutes

Evening Award Ceremony and…

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LBJ's nomination of Thurgood Marshall for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, 6/13/1967. NARA ID 306369. Image from that day, 2803441.

#OTD 1967, MARSHALL CONFIRMED TO SUPREME COURT

By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs

President Johnson knew he a fight would ensue when he appointed Thurgood Marshall to be the first Black Justice to the Supreme Court. But LBJ loved a good fight and knew he had a good man. He said of Marshall, the great-grandson of a slave:

[H]e earned that appointment; he deserves the appointment. He is best qualified by training and by very valuable service to the country. I believe it is the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place. LBJ on Marshall.

Fun fact! Marshall's interest in law began in high school when, as punishment for a prank, the school's principal made him read the Constitution! Marshall he not only read it but began memorizing it!

Even before the Supreme Court, Marshall had made his mark in American law, having won 29 of the 32 cases he argued before the Supreme Court, most notably Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954). Marshall had also been appointed to the Second Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 and U.S. Solicitor General by President Johnson in 1965.

LBJ with Thurgood Marshall in the Oval Office, 6/13/1967. NARA ID 2803439.

As an associate justice on the highest court in America, Marshall continued his lifelong fight against discrimination to protect the constitutional rights of the most vulnerable Americans. He retired from the Supreme Court in 1991 after 24 years on the bench and died on January 24, 1993. Upon Marshall’s death, President Clinton issued a Presidential Proclamation praising Marshall:

Perhaps no other American lawyer has had more impact on the current meaning and content of the U.S. Constitution. As the leading attorney for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Education Fund, Justice Marshall’s twenty-nine victories before the U.S. Supreme Court breathed life into the text of the Fourteenth Amendment and guaranteed all Americans equality and liberty in their individual choices concerning voting, housing, education, and travel. As an appeals court judge, the Solicitor General of the United States and, finally, Supreme Court Justice, he worked tirelessly to expand and protect his vision of justice for America. As our Nation begins to chart its course for the next century, it is fitting that we pause to honor and remember the courageous, purposeful life of Thurgood Marshall.

Honoring Justice Thurgood Marshall: the right man and the right place, Pieces of History

This Week in Universal News: Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall is Sworn In, 1967, Unwritten Record.

“The Long Siege”: Thurgood Marshall’s Other Court Nomination Battle, Rediscovering Black History

Letters to JFK re: nomination/confirmation of Marshall to a Federal judgeship on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Read Marshall’s 1964 oral history at the Kennedy Presidential Library

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Secrets of the Secret Service

Interesting snippets from Ronald Kessler's book about our presidents.

JOHN & JACQUELINE KENNEDY

He was a philanderer of the highest order.

She ordered the kitchen help to save all the left-over winefrom State dinners,

mixed it with fresh wine and served again during the next White House occasion.

LYNDON & LADYBIRD JOHNSON

LBJ was as crude as the day is long.  

LBJ kept a lot of women in the White House for extramarital affairs and had set up early warning systems to alert him if if his wife was nearby.  

He was a promiscuous and oversexed man.  

Lady Bird was either naive or just pretended to not know about her husband's many liaisons.

RICHARD & PAT NIXON

A moral man, but very odd, weird, paranoid.

He had a horrible relationship with his family and was almost a recluse.

SPIRO AGNEW

Nice, decent man.  

Everyone in the Secret Service was surprised by his downfall.

GERALD & BETTY FORD

A true gentlemen who treated the Secret Service with respect and dignity.

He had a great sense of humor.  

She drank a lot!

JIMMY & ROSALYN CARTER

A complete phony who would portray one picture of himself to public and very different in private, e.g. would be shown carrying his own luggage, but the suitcases were always empty.  He kept empty ones just for photo-ops.  

He wanted people to see him as pious and a non-drinker, but he and his family drank alcohol - a lot!  

He had disdain for the Secret Service and was very irresponsible with the "football" with the nuclear codes.  He didn't think it was a big deal and would keep military aides at a great distance.  

Often did not acknowledge the presence of Secret Service personnel assigned to serve him.  

She mostly did her own thing.

RONALD & NANCY REAGAN

The real deal; moral, honest, respectful and dignified.  

They treated Secret Service and everyone else with respect and honor, thanked everyone all the time.  

He took the time to know everyone on a personal level.  

One favorite story was early in his Presidency when he came out of his room with a pistol tucked on his hip.  The agent in charge asked: "Why the pistol, Mr. President?"  He replied, "In case you boys can't get the job done, I can help." 

It was common for him to carry a pistol.  When he met with Gorbachev, he had a pistol in his briefcase.  

She was very nice, but very protective of the President, and the Secret Service was often caught in the middle.  

She tried hard to control what he ate.  He would say to the agent, "Come on, you gotta help me out."  

The Reagan's drank wine during State dinners and special occasions only, otherwise they shunned alcohol.  The Secret Service could count on one hand the times they had served wine during family dinner.  

For all the fake bluster of the Carters, the Reagan's were the ones who lived life as genuinely moral people.

GEORGE H. & BARBARA BUSH

Extremely kind and considerate, always respectful.  

Took great care in making sure the agents comforts were taken care of.

They even brought them meals.  

One time she brought warm clothes to agents standing outside at Kennebunkport.  One was given a warm hat and, when he tried to say "no thanks" even though he was obviously freezing, the President said "Son, don't argue with the First Lady. Put the hat on."  

He was the most prompt of the Presidents. He ran the White House like a well-oiled machine.  

She ruled the house and spoke her mind.

BILL & HILLARY CLINTON

Presidency was one giant party.  

Not trustworthy.  

He was nice mainly because he wanted everyone to like him, but to him life is just one big game and party.  

Everyone knows about his sexuality.  

She is another phony.  

Her personality would change the instant cameras were near.  

She hated, with open disdain the military and Secret Service.  

She was another who felt people were there to serve her.  

She was always trying to keep tabs on Bill Clinton.

ALBERT GORE

An egotistical ass who once overheard by his Secret Service detail lecturing his son that he needed to do better in school or he would end up “...like these guys,” pointing to the agents.

GEORGE W. & LAURA BUSH

The Secret Service loved him and Laura Bush.  

He was also the most physically in shape who had a very strict workout regimen.  

The Bushes made sure their entire administrative and household staff understood that they were to respect and be considerate of the Secret Service.  

She was one of the nicest First Ladies, if not the nicest. 

She never had any harsh word to say about anyone.

BARACK & MICHELLE OBAMA

The Clintons all over again.  

Hated the military and looked down on the Secret Service.  

He is egotistical and cunning.  

He looks you in the eye and appears to agree with you but turns around and does the opposite.  

He has temper tantrums.  

She is a complete bitch who basically hates anybody who is not black, hates the military, and looks at the Secret Service as servants.

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✨ Stacey Abrams ✨

The first black woman and first Georgian to deliver a Response to the State of the Union. The woman without whom more than 800,000 voters in Georgia would remain unregistered. 🌟

Stacey Abrams and her five siblings grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi with three tenets: go to school, go to church, and take care of each other. Despite struggling to make ends meet for their family, her parents made service a way of life for their children – if someone was less fortunate, it was their job to serve that person. This ethic – and her parents’ unwavering commitment to providing educational opportunity for their children – led the family to Georgia.

Stacey’s parents attended Emory University to pursue graduate studies in Divinity and become United Methodist ministers. Stacey and her younger siblings attended DeKalb County Schools, and she graduated from Avondale High School. Stacey received degrees from Spelman College, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, and Yale Law School.

She put her education to work to better the lives of Georgians through the government, nonprofit, and business sectors. Dedicated to civic engagement, she founded the New Georgia Project, which submitted more than 200,000 registrations for voters of color between 2014 and 2016. Under the pen name Selena Montgomery, Stacey is the award-winning author of eight romantic suspense novels, which have sold more than 100,000 copies. As co-founder of NOW Account – a financial services firm that helps small businesses grow – Stacey has helped create and retain jobs in Georgia. And through her various business ventures, Stacey has helped employ even more Georgians, including hundreds of young people starting out.

In 2010, Stacey became the first woman to lead either party in the Georgia General Assembly and the first African American to lead in the House of Representatives. As House Minority Leader, she has worked strategically to recruit, train, elect, and defend Democrats to prevent a Republican supermajority in the House, and has worked across the aisle on behalf of all Georgians. During her tenure, she has stopped legislation to raise taxes on the poor and middle class and to roll back reproductive healthcare. She has brokered compromises that led to progress on transportation, infrastructure, and education. Most recently, she passed legislation to improve the welfare of grandparents and other kin raising children and secured increased funding to support these families.

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Stacey Abrams Kicks Off Virtual 2021 SXSW Festival

Keynote Speaker Stacey Abrams

    Stacey Abrams launched SXSW as a Keynote Speaker – and we immediately learned something new.  In addition to a very public political career, Abrams has also achieved fame as a romance novelist:  she’s written eight (8)  romance novels under the name of Selena Montgomery, and she’ll soon be releasing While Justice Sleeps, described as a political thriller in May 2021.  The SXSW moderator N.K. Jemisin, herself an accomplished writer and labeled by the New York Times as “the most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer of her generation,” began the session by admitting how excited she was to get the chance to moderate for Abrams, “I am super ‘fan-girling' right now and I’m trying to hold it down!”  Jemisin began by asking, “How did romance writing help you enter the field of politics?”

    Abrams responded, “I wouldn’t say that it helped me enter politics, but it has always formed how I do my job…all of them. I’m a writer because I love words. Like you, storytelling is innate. When I was a third year in law school, I wanted to write an espionage novel, but this was back in 1999, and women were not writing as espionage writers…certainly not a black woman. And my heroine was a black chemical physicist who was going to unravel this very complicated story. I talked to some friends in publishing, and they said yes, you’re not going to get that published! So I made my spies fall in love, killed the same number of people and it got published!”

       Keynote Speaker Stacey Abrams, Moderator N.K. Jemisin and Interpreter.

     That is how she became a bestselling author – to add to monikers like: entrepreneur, organizer and elected Minority Leader in the Georgia House of Representatives.  Abrams earned degrees from Spelman College, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, and Yale Law School.  In politics, she says, “You may want to do something one way, and you may have your eyes set on the entire orchestration. But it may not work out the way you intend -- but that doesn’t relieve you of the responsibility.”

     Indeed, this was the blueprint for her role in the 2020 Presidential Election Campaign to Get Out the Vote, which placed her on a national platform and at a time when Abrams came to embody the urgency of elections fairness.  Readers will remember that just two years earlier, Stacey Abrams ran for Governor of Georgia where her opponent, Republican Brian Kemp, ran for the same office while refusing to step aside as Georgia’s secretary of state; in essence, Abrams’ opponent had the unfathomable advantage of overseeing, regulating, counting and certifying the votes in his own election contest.  

       Though decried as a “conflict of interest,” Kemp nevertheless was declared the Governor.  What happened next, though, was both cathartic and miraculous:  rather than retreating into self-absorption, Abrams channeled fury from that blatant unfairness into a movement that ultimately upended the entire 2020 election in Georgia, and beyond.  People may not fully appreciate how significant a change in such a short time that was.  Still, there is a hearkening back to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way in which he helped to usher in a new paradigm for millions of people, but for which he himself, saw few of the fruits of his labor.  Stacey Abrams’ selfless mission is not unlike that.  She’s now being asked by many, “What’s next?” She smiles and says, “We’ll see.”

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Another a chapter begins for my friend Irek. #myboiirek #studentporvida #hookemgraduate (at The LBJ School of Public Affairs) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5xoDjDFCz3/?igshid=5trjbryxa58d

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LBJ School of Public Affairs' Gateway to Executive Leadership Course

LBJ School of Public Affairs’ Gateway to Executive Leadership Course

LBJ School of Public Affairs Image: lbj.utexas.edu

A former finance administrator and assistant superintendent of finance with the El Paso Education Initiative, Inc., Esther Burnham (formerly Esther Furrer) currently works as a grant writer for the Austin Community College (ACC). In addition, Esther Burnham is currently broadening her skill set by attending executive-level evening and weekend…

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Stacey Abrams Biography And Profile

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Stacey Abrams Biography And Profile

Stacey Abrams (Stacey Yvonne Abrams) was born on 9 December 1973. Stacey Abrams an American politician, lawyer, and novelist served as minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, she is her party’s nominee in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election.

Stacey knows our beginnings do not have to dictate who we will become. She has a boundless belief in Georgians’ capacity to prosper; and she has the courage, commitment to service, and experience to make this vision a reality.

Stacey’s Foundation Stacey Abrams and her five siblings grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi with three tenets: go to school, go to church, and take care of each other. Despite struggling to make ends meet for their family, her parents made service a way of life for their children – if someone was less fortunate, it was their job to serve that person. This ethic – and her parents’ unwavering commitment to providing educational opportunity for their children – led the family to Georgia.

Stacey’s Childhood Stacey’s parents attended Emory University to pursue graduate studies in Divinity and become United Methodist ministers. Stacey and her younger siblings attended DeKalb County Schools, and she graduated from Avondale High School. Stacey received degrees from Spelman College, the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, and Yale Law School.

Stacey’s Work She put her education to work to better the lives of Georgians through the government, nonprofit, and business sectors. Dedicated to civic engagement, she founded the New Georgia Project, which submitted more than 200,000 registrations for voters of color between 2014 and 2016. Under the pen name Selena Montgomery, Stacey is the award-winning author of eight romantic suspense novels, which have sold more than 100,000 copies. As co-founder of NOW Account – a financial services firm that helps small businesses grow – Stacey has helped create and retain jobs in Georgia. And through her various business ventures, Stacey has helped employ even more Georgians, including hundreds of young people starting out.

From President Barack Obama “In a time when too many folks are focused simply on how to win an election, Stacey’s somebody who cares about something more important: why we should. That’s the kind of politics we should practice. That’s why I’m proud to give Stacey Abrams my support.”

Stacey’s Leadership In 2010, Stacey became the first woman to lead either party in the Georgia General Assembly and the first African American to lead in the House of Representatives. As House Minority Leader, she has worked strategically to recruit, train, elect, and defend Democrats to prevent a Republican supermajority in the House, and has worked across the aisle on behalf of all Georgians. During her tenure, she has stopped legislation to raise taxes on the poor and middle class and to roll back reproductive healthcare. She has brokered compromises that led to progress on transportation, infrastructure, and education. Most recently, she passed legislation to improve the welfare of grandparents and other kin raising children and secured increased funding to support these families.

Stacey’s Achievements Stacey has worked hard to harness the extraordinary opportunities available to our state. She understands that if we have the vision to strive – and the courage to confront our challenges – our potential is boundless. She has met with families and small businesses in more than 150 counties, and she has proven her ability to find solutions across divides. Stacey has received the Friend of Labor award for her staunch support of working families and an A-rating from the Georgia Chamber of Commerce in the same year. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and she is the proud 2012 Grand Champion of the Georgia National Fair Legislative Livestock Roundup. Stacey has received recognition from the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (Georgia), the National Urban League, EMILY’s List, and Planned Parenthood.

Stacey Abrams Biography And Profile (Stacey Abrams)