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Dock J. Jordan
Dock Jackson "D. J." Jordan (October 18, 1866 - October 20, 1943) was an American lawyer, author, politician, educator, historian and civil rights activist. On July 14, 1917, a letter that Jordan wrote criticizing President Woodrow Wilson's policies on African-Americans and condemning the administration for the East St. Louis Riot was published in the ''Raleigh Independent''. The letter was subsequently published in newspapers throughout the United States and thrust Jordan into national prominence.
==Early life==
Dock Jackson Jordan was born October 18, 1866 in Cuthbert, Georgia to Giles and Julia Jordan. Giles Dolphus 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 Early County; 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.
Julia Elmira White 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.
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