Dock J. Jordan
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Dock J. Jordan | |
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North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University | |
In office 1912–1918 | |
President of Kittrell College | |
In office 1909–1912 | |
Preceded by | John Leonidas Wheeler |
Succeeded by | Cadd Grant O'Kelly |
Principal of Gray Street School | |
In office 1905–1909 | |
Vice President of Morris Brown College | |
In office 1898–1905 | |
6th President of Edward Waters University | |
In office 1895–1897 | |
Preceded by | John R. Scott Sr. |
Succeeded by | J. P. O. Wallace |
Personal details | |
Born | Dock Jackson Jordan October 18, 1866 Cuthbert, Georgia, U.S. |
Died | October 20, 1943 Durham, North Carolina, U.S. | (aged 77)
Spouse | Carrie Thomas Jordan |
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Dock Jackson Jordan (October 18, 1866 – October 20, 1943)
Early life
Dock Jackson Jordan was born October 18, 1866, in Cuthbert, Georgia to the Rev. Giles Dolphus Jordan and Julia Elmira White Jordan. Giles Jordan was born a slave in 1840 in South Carolina and died in 1898 in Early County, Georgia. On June 24, 1867, he registered to vote in Randolph County, Georgia; two years after his emancipation from slavery. He was a slave on the Westmoreland Plantation in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The elder Jordan was a Circuit Rider and 25-year veteran A.M.E. minister. He was appointed pastor of Wesley Chapel A.M.E. Church in Blakely, Georgia by Bishop Thomas Marcus Decatur Ward in 1875.
Julia White Jordan was born a slave in August 1847 and died on December 2, 1933, in Blakely, Georgia. According to her descendants and as evidenced by the success of her children, education was important to Julia. She ensured that each of her eight children attended school.
Education
He graduated in 1892 from Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina with a B.S. and an LL.B. degree and was admitted to practice law by the South Carolina Supreme Court in May 1892. In 1900, the M.S. degree was bestowed upon him by Allen. After moving to Atlanta, Georgia, he was admitted to practice in that state. According to records held by Columbia University, Jordan furthered his education and received his B.S. in 1925 and his A.M. in 1928 from Teachers College at Columbia University.
Career
Professor D. J. Jordan joined the faculty of Morris Brown College in Atlanta in 1893, and while there, served as Professor of Science and Dean of Law before accepting the position of President of Edward Waters University in Jacksonville Florida in November 1895. Also in 1893, he was a Republican nominee for the state legislature in Randolph County, Georgia and in 1894, a delegate to the state convention. At the state convention in 1894, Professor Jordan gave a 10-minute speech that aided in defeating white supremacist Thomas E. Watson as a candidate for Governor of Georgia. He was elected as a lay delegate to the A.M.E. Church in 1896, 1904, and 1912.
In 1897, he returned to Morris Brown as Professor of Literature where he remained until 1898, when he was appointed Vice President of the institution and Professor of Mathematics. He taught a semester at
At the turn of the century, D. J. Jordan joined with
Other authors of the appeal included educators John Hope (educator), John W. E. Bowen Sr. and William H. Crogman, physician Henry Rutherford Butler, minister Henry H. Proctor and L. B. Maxwell.
Kittrell College and letter to Woodrow Wilson
In 1909, Professor D. J. Jordan moved his family to
On July 14, 1917, the Independent, then owned by black leader
North Carolina College
Since 1914 Jordan had served simultaneously as an administrator at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College and as a professor at the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua for the Colored Race. In 1918, he became head of the Department and Professor of History at what is now North Carolina Central University, and was the only history professor listed at the school until 1939. Jordan also taught English and Government at NCC until his retirement in 1941. Jordan's home, The Dock J. Jordan House was located on the campus at the corner of Lawson and Fayetteville Streets until it was demolished in 1965.
Death
Dock Jackson Jordan died on October 20, 1943, and is buried in Durham's Beechwood Cemetery. He was the father of six children: Alice Julia Jordan, Lawrence Jordan, prominent A.M.E. Bishop Frederick Douglass Jordan, Julian Jordan, Frances Marie Jordan and Edwin Adolphis Jordan.
Legacy
On October 18, 2021, Durham, North Carolina Mayor Steve Schewel declared Dock and Carrie Jordan Day in the city. The effort to recognize the couple was led by Council Member Pierce Freelon.
On September 6, 2022, the Durham City Council unanimously voted to adopt a resolution designating a section of Fayetteville Street from Lawson Street to Timothy Avenue as Dr. Dock J. Jordan and Carrie Thomas Jordan Highway.
On April 6, 2023, the North Carolina Department of Transportation's Board of Transportation formally adopted a resolution naming State Road 1118 in honor of the couple.
References
1. [1] 2. Who's Who Of The Colored Race, V1, 1915 3. Twentieth Century Negro Literature by Daniel Wallace Culp