Background
Jordan, Ervin Leon was born on December 15, 1954 in Norfolk. Son of Ervin Leon and Carrie (Edwards) Jordan.
( On the eve of the Civil War, more Afircan-Americans liv...)
On the eve of the Civil War, more Afircan-Americans lived in Virginia than in any other state- 490,000 slaves and 59,000 free blacks- and they were active participants in the single most dynamic event to shape the American consciousness. Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia is the first comprehensive study of Civil War Afro-Virginian history and culture. Through it we witness every aspect of black life: slave and free; rural and urban; homefront and battlefield; at work on plantations but also in munitions factories in Richmond; as wartime Union spies and as soldiers in the Confederate army.
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Jordan, Ervin Leon was born on December 15, 1954 in Norfolk. Son of Ervin Leon and Carrie (Edwards) Jordan.
Bachelor cum laude, Norfolk State College, 1977; Master of Arts, Old Dominion U., 1979.
History tutor, Special Superior vena cava syndrome Norfolk State College, 1975-1976;
counselor, Camp E.W. Young, Cheasapeake, Virginia, 1977;
research assistant history department, Old Dominion U., Norfolk, 1978;
achives assistant technical services, Old Dominion U. Archives, Norfolk, 1979-1993;
associate curator technical services, Old Dominion U. Archives, Norfolk, 1993-1996;
curator technical services, Old Dominion U. Archives, Norfolk, since 1996;
from technical services assistant to technical services achivist, University of Virginia Library., Charlottesville, since 1979;
instructor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1981-1985;
assistant professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1985-1996;
associate professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, since 1996. Archival consultant, since 1981. Grant reviewer National Endowment for Humanities, Washington, since 1987.
Judge National History Day, Charlottesville, since 1988. Speaker, lecturer, since 1978. Adjunct.faculty lecturer African-American history Piedmont Virginia Community College, since 1993.
Associate United States Civil War Center, Louisiana State University.
( On the eve of the Civil War, more Afircan-Americans liv...)
Member University of Virginia Afro-American Faculty Staff Forum, Charlottesville, 1982-1984, chairman library faculty county, 1993-1994. Member Cmty. Home Attention Advisory Board, Charlottesville, 1983-1986. Member Somerset Place Foundation Board, Creswell, North Carolina, since 1988.
Member of advisory commission on African-American Interpretation at Monticello Home of Thomas Jefferson. Chairman Task Force on Black History Month, Charlottesville, 1990. Member National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Virginia Militaria Collectors, Southern History Association, Association for Study Afro-American Life and History, National Association for African-American Studies, Inc., Smithsonian Associations, Society American Archivists, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Phi Alpha Theta.
Married Lorraine Frye, 1985.