African-American businessman James Edward Jordan (1888-1977) was born in Wrightsville, GA, and moved to Atlanta in 1919. His career included beauty and barber-supply sales, tailoring, clothing sales, real estate, photography, and motion-picture production. Mr. Jordan is recognized as an early entrepreneur in the Atlanta African-American community. He ran the Jordan Shop of Quality, maintained a tailor shop in the Odd Fellows Building, and purchased the Pioneer Mercantile Company. In 1947, Jordan opened a photography studio at 268 Auburn Avenue, which he operated until the late 1960s. During much of this period, Auburn Avenue, known as “Sweet Auburn,” was the central business and cultural street for Atlanta’s African-American community. His real estate holdings included several homes in Atlanta; he also owned properties in New York City. Mr. Jordan’s businesses were family operated enterprises. Married to Anna Hobbs in Wrightsville, GA, the couple had seven children to live to adulthood: James, Narvie, Harvey, Edward, Anna Pearl, Robert, and Juanita. Each worked for some time in the Jordan businesses. Mr. Jordan also placed a great deal of emphasis on education, funding several scholarships to Booker T. Washington High School in the early 1930s. 1 No other biographical information is currently available.