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]
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]