Her works are played by orchestras and at music festivals around the world, and this year she won a Pulitzer Prize.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

In the weeks before her death she won her twenty-ninth Blues Music Award, the most for any artist ever.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

She won a National Book Award in two thousand for her poetry collection "Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems."

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She won easily. She was the first woman and first black to be elected to Congress to represent Texas.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

She won a four-year college scholarship, the top prize nationally in a public speaking contest on the Constitution.

VOA: special.2010.04.24

At the age of twenty-one, she won a national contest to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

She won. Barbara Jordan became the first black person to serve in the Texas Senate since eighteen eighty-three.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

She won many Grammy Awards. With her seventy albums, she became the most famous voice of salsa music.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in nineteen seventy-nine for her work in "Kramer vs.Kramer."

VOA: special.2009.05.29

She wanted to become a writer. She won two major prizes from the college for her writing.

VOA: special.2009.06.28

Two years later she won the Western Open for the first of her three major titles.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

It ran for three years. She won a Tony award, two Grammys and other honors.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

She won her third Academy Award the next year for "A Lion in Winter."

VOA: special.2009.09.20

She won many professional titles, including the United States Women's Open in nineteen forty-seven.

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She won prizes for her writings that were published in newspapers and magazines.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

And,in her mid-seventies she won her last Academy Award for "On Golden Pond."

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She won a financial award to study at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore,Maryland.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

In nineteen fifty-three, she won a scholarship to attend Howard University in Washington,D.C.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

She won thirteen Grammy awards given each year for the best recordings.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

She won the Grammy for Best Classical Vocal Performance for the album,"Verismo."

VOA: special.2010.02.05

And she won even though her right leg was injured.

VOA: special.2010.02.26