Leon M. Jordan Collection

This collection features photographs from the personal archive of African-American police detective, political leader from Kansas City, and trainer of Liberia's post-WWII national police force, Leon M. Jordan and his wife Orchid Irene Ramsey Jordan. The photographs range in date from the 1910s to the 1980s.

Items in Collection: 688

Topics

Civil Rights

Kansas City History

Politics & Government

Leon Jordan sitting at a desk with a typewriter and rotary phone. Jordan is holding a cigarette over an ash tray and is wearing a pin-stripe suit. He is looking up at the camera.

Date Published

1945

1950

Portrait of Leon Jordan. He is looking to the side with a neutral expression. Jordan is wearing a black suit and tie with a white pocket square.

Support Committee for the Public Accommodations Act in Kansas City, Missouri. Back row: Leon Jordan, unidentified man. Middle row: unidentified man, Lee Vertis Swinton, Mayor Ilus Davis, Bruce Watkins...

Date Published

1963

Date Published

1963

UMKC University Libraries Digital Collections

Leon Jordan sitting at a desk

Portrait of Leon Jordan

Support Committee for Public Accommodations Act in Kansas City, Mo.

Support Committee for Public Accommodations Act in Kansas City, Mo.

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Digital Projects

LaBudde Special Collections

Marr Sound Archives

University Archives