Lewis Garnett Jordan
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Lewis Garnett Jordan (uncertain - 1934) was a Black American Baptist missionary who rose from slavery to lead religious and civic organizations in the United States.
Jordan traveled to Liberia, the West Indies, and Europe.[1]
He was enslaved as a child. He led the National Baptist's Foreign Missions Board. He advocated temperance.[2][3]
He was recording secretary for the National Negro American Political League.[4]
He wrote Up the Ladder in Foreign Missions (1901)[5] and Pebbles from an African Beach (1917).[6] His Negro Baptist History U.S.A., 1750-1930 was published in 1930 and again in 1939.[7][1] He wrote an autobiography titled On Two Henispheres; Bits from the Life of Lewis G. Jordan as told by himself.[8]
He wrote about Hattie Presley.[9] Nannie Helen Burroughs worked as his assistant.[10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Anderson, Gerald H. (January 21, 1999). Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8028-4680-8 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Cynthia Cooper | Your Story | The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross | PBS". PBS.
- ↑ Bradley, Anthony B. (January 19, 2015). Black Scholars in White Space: New Vistas in African American Studies from the Christian Academy. Wipf and Stock Publishers. ISBN 978-1-63087-882-5 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "bookreader demo". credo.library.umass.edu.
- ↑ Jordan, Lewis Garnett (January 21, 1901). "Up the ladder in foreign missions". Nashville, Tenn., National Baptist pub. board – via Internet Archive.
- ↑ "Pebbles from an African beach | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org.
- ↑ "Negro Baptist history U.S.A., 1750-1930 | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org.
- ↑ "On two hemispheres : bits from the life story of Lewis G. Jordan | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org.
- ↑ Martin, Sandy Dwayne (January 21, 1989). Black Baptists and African Missions: The Origins of a Movement, 1880-1915. Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-86554-353-9 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Wimbush, Vincent L. (January 1, 2001). African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Texts and Social Structures. A&C Black. ISBN 978-0-8264-1376-5 – via Google Books.
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