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]

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