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Why does barbara jordan say in the opening to her "1976 democratic national convention keynote address" that "There is something different about tonight...something special."

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Step-by-step explanation:

Jordan began by noting she was the first black woman to ever deliver a keynote address at a major party convention and that such a thing would have been almost impossible even a decade earlier.

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