Draft:E. B. Jourdain

Sr. and Jr. both involved in civil rights

Edwin Bush Jourdain Sr. (1865-1938)? was a lawyer in New Bedford, Massachusetts and was involved in the Niagara Movement.

Edwin Bush Jourdain Jr. (1900-1986) was the first African American elected Alderman in Evanston, Illinois. Served from 1931-1947. Also the state's first African-American Assistant State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Illinois.

He graduated from Harvard in 1921. His home at 2032 Darrow Avenue was declared an African American Heritage Site in 2020.

Edwin Jourdain, Edwin B. Jourdain

obit

https://legacyofslavery.harvard.edu/alumni/edwin-bush-jourdain-jr

https://bmrc.lib.uchicago.edu/portal/view/?id=BMRC.SHOREFRONT.JOURDAIN.xml

https://www.newspapers.com/article/herald-and-review-spoke-at-annual-antioc/13220884/

https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b191-i224

His son Spencer Jourdain is an author who wrote The Dream Dancers: Volume One.