Following her Academy Award nomination for last year's The Help , Viola Davis has plans to headline a biopic based on civil rights leader Barbara Jordan. Variety has the story, saying that Paris Barclay ("Smash") will direct.
The film will be based on the biography, "Barbara Jordan: American Hero" by Mary Beth Rogers. The book itself is officially described as follows:
The first African American to serve in the Texas Senate since Reconstruction, Barbara Jordan was also the first black woman elected to Congress from the South, and the first to deliver the keynote address at a national party convention. Her powerful oratory stirred a nation; her ideals of ethical leadership inspired millions. Yet Jordan herself remained a mystery, a woman so private that...
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