While researching in the Record Office (the foreign ministry archives) in
Tokyo, I came across two letters from Robert O. Jordan. One was written
in his position as President of the European pacific Movement, Inc. of
New York to the Japanese foreign minister. In it he claimed his movement
spoke for all the "colored" peoples of the world. This was in May 1936.
The second was written in November 1936, again to the foreign minister.
This time Jordan wrote as President General of the Ethiopian Pacific
Movement, Inc., of New York. Can anyone on H-Africa help me figure out
who Robert O. Jordan was? What were these two organizations and any
interrelationship between them. What, if any, was the relationship of
these two groups to the "Pacific Movement" of Chicago and other
mid-western cities?
Thanks
Jay Clarke
Division of Social Sciences
Jacksonville University
Jacksonville, FL 32211
(904) 745-7211
jclarke.junix.ju.edu
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>From HGM: A Robert L. Jordan, an ex-Garveyite, was interested in a
global, colored alliance headed by Japanese and African Americans. See
William R. Scott, *The Sons of Sheba's Race*, Indiana, 1993, p. 144.
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