Lewis Garnett Jordan

{{Short description|Missionary, church leader, and civil rights advocate}}

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Lewis Garnett Jordan (uncertain-1934 or 1939) 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.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oQ8BFk9K0ToC&dq=%22Lewis+%C2%A0G.+Jordan%22&pg=PA343|title=Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions|first=Gerald H.|last=Anderson|date=January 21, 1999|publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing|isbn=978-0-8028-4680-8 |via=Google Books}}

He was enslaved as a child. He led the National Baptist's Foreign Missions Board. He advocated temperance.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/your-stories/cynthia-cooper/|title=Cynthia Cooper | Your Story | The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross | PBS|website=PBS }}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DF36CQAAQBAJ&dq=%22L.+G.+Jordan%22&pg=PT169|title=Black Scholars in White Space: New Vistas in African American Studies from the Christian Academy|first=Anthony B.|last=Bradley|date=January 19, 2015|publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers|isbn=978-1-63087-882-5 |via=Google Books}}

He was recording secretary for the National Negro American Political League.{{Cite web|url=https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/pageturn/mums312-b004-i058/#page/1/mode/1up|title=bookreader demo|website=credo.library.umass.edu}}

He wrote Up the Ladder in Foreign Missions (1901){{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/upladderinforeig00jord|title=Up the ladder in foreign missions|first=Lewis Garnett|last=Jordan|date=January 21, 1901|publisher=Nashville, Tenn., National Baptist pub. board|via=Internet Archive}} and Pebbles from an African Beach (1917).{{Cite web|url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/690765215|title=Pebbles from an African beach | WorldCat.org|website=search.worldcat.org}} His Negro Baptist History U.S.A., 1750-1930 was published in 1930 and again in 1939.{{Cite web|url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/28291662|title=Negro Baptist history U.S.A., 1750-1930 | WorldCat.org|website=search.worldcat.org}} He wrote an autobiography titled On Two Henispheres; Bits from the Life of Lewis G. Jordan as told by himself.{{Cite web|url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/78564285|title=On two hemispheres : bits from the life story of Lewis G. Jordan | WorldCat.org|website=search.worldcat.org}}

He wrote about Hattie Presley.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LQCjYGRpbaEC&dq=%22Lewis+%C2%A0G.+Jordan%22&pg=PA167|title=Black Baptists and African Missions: The Origins of a Movement, 1880-1915|first=Sandy Dwayne|last=Martin|date=January 21, 1989|publisher=Mercer University Press|isbn=978-0-86554-353-9 |via=Google Books}} Nannie Helen Burroughs worked as his assistant.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yInYLV-386gC&q=burroughs&pg=PA410|title=African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Texts and Social Structures|first=Vincent L.|last=Wimbush|date=January 1, 2001|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-8264-1376-5 |via=Google Books}}